The dismal predictions of the future from the first Earth Day in 1970.
Chicken Little report: The dismal predictions of the future from the first Earth Day in 1970.
I especially like the last two predictions, since I expect them to sooner or later become popular again.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Chicken Little report: The dismal predictions of the future from the first Earth Day in 1970.
I especially like the last two predictions, since I expect them to sooner or later become popular again.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
I always remember George Carlin’s judgment on what man’s purpose is on the earth:
The earth just wanted plastic and the only way it could get it was to invent man to produce it. After that has been accomplished to the necessary quantities the earth will just shake us off, we have served our purpose.
Carlin was a master observer of the hubris of man.
Well, one prediction of the 70’s thankfully came true….disco died. Yea!
The ozone hole scare amounted to just that…a big hole.
The alar scare whimpered out.
Bell bottoms, polysester leisure suits and large-collared colorful satin shirts went to way of the 8-track tape.
Central Park and the N.Y.C. subways were cleaned up and renovated so as to be safe and beautiful again.
In spite of the doom and gloom from the left and enviromentalists lo these many years…they are now truly sounding like broken records of….Disco.
As for #8 on the list, have you seen the air over a major Chinese city?
Many of the items on the list have the qualifier “if present trends continue” or some variation thereof. Progressives see a snapshot and think it’s the whole movie.
In my grandmothers first sixtyfive years, she said that we were supposed to run out of oil at least 4 times, this was in the early 1970’s she lived to 102, we never did run out of oil or gas!