Unpossible!
I came across this story in the Wall Street Journal-- to which I'm an avid reader, so I'm surprised to have missed it-- via Kurt.
Required reading for any enviro-tards in the audience. A little soapboxing to the choir for those of us with a clue.
In 1958 liberal economist John Kenneth Galbraith's best-selling "The Affluent Society" assured us that living standards had risen so far they couldn't rise any further. In 1960 Prof. Paul Erlich concluded that 65 million Americans would perish from famine in the 1980s and food riots would kill millions more. Scientific American predicted in 1970 that in 20 years the world would be out of lead, zinc, tin, gold and silver. And Jimmy Carter's 1980 "Global 2000" report forecast that mass starvation and superplagues would ravage the globe in the final year of the millennium. They all more or less agreed with English philosopher Thomas Hobbes that our lives would be "solitary, nasty, brutish, and short."Du Pont references Gregg Easterbrook's book, The Progress Paradox : How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, which I'll be picking up today. It appears to be the definitive guide to debate on the subject of "global warming" and other such excuses for rolling back human civilization by a few hundred years.
And they were all dead wrong.