Original Earth Day Predictions

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/earth-day-predictions-of-1970-the-reason-you-should-not-believe-earth-day-predictions-of-2009

"Let me just give you some of the predictions from scientists in the last 35, 30 years. Scientists and environmentalists, okay? Here they are. Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against the problems we're facing as mankind. Biologist George Wald, Harvard. Yeah, made that statement in 1970. So... I didn't know we were all dead by 1985. Oh, yeah, we all died in 2000.

"By 1995 somewhere between 75 and 85% of all species of living animals will be extinct." Wow. That came from a senator, Senator Gaylord Nelson. Like Senator Al Gore. No, he's bigger than the senator. He's vice president, a Nobel Prize winner.
"Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor, the planet will cool. The water vapor will fall and freeze and a new ice age will be born," Newsweek magazine. "The world will be 11 degrees colder in the year 2000. That's twice what it would take to put us in an ice age." That's good. "By 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching Earth by 1/2." Wow. By 1985. That would have been sweet, huh? Especially now with this global warming. Wouldn't it be convenient if we only got 1/2 the sunlight? "Air pollution is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone," biologist Paul Erlich. By the way, he also -- that was 1970. In 1973 he also went on to say 200,000 Americans would die from air pollution and that by 1980 the life expectancy of Americans would be 42 years. I've been dead for three. So, sucks to be me."