CLIMATE CHANGE

"Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind."
Biologist George Wald
Harvard University
April 19, 1970

By 1995, "...somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct."
Sen. G. Nelson,
quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley,
Look magazine, April 1970

The world will be "...eleven degrees cooler in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age."
Kenneth Watt
speaking at Swarthmore University,
April 19, 1970

"By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching the earth by one half..."
Life magazine, January 1970

"In 1973, 200,000 Americans would die from air pollution, and by 1980 the life expectancy of Americans will be 42 years."
Paul Ehrlich,
interview in Mademoiselle magazine,
April 1970

"It is already to late to avoid mass starvation."
Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes,
The Living Wilderness

"By the year 2000...the entire world, with the exception of Western-Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine."
Peter Gunter
North Texas State University
The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970