1. 1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975 2. 1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969) 3. 1970: Ice Age By 2000 4. 1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980 5. 1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030 6. 1972: New Ice Age By 2070 7. 1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast 8. 1974: Another Ice Age? 9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life 10. 1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent 11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes 12. 1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend 13. 1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s 14. 1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs 15. 1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they’re not) 16. 1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000 17. 1989: New York City’s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it’s not) 18. 2000: Children Won’t Know what Snow Is 19. 2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don’t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy 20. 2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024 21. 2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018 22. 2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013 23. 2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World 24. 2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to ‘Save The Planet From Catastrophe’ 25. 2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014 26. 2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015 27. 2014: Only 500 Days Before ‘Climate Chaos’ 28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide 29. 1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources 30. 1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years 31. 1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years 32. 1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 1990s 33. 1980: Peak Oil In 2000 34. 1996: Peak Oil in 2020 35. 2002: Peak Oil in 2010 36. 2006: Super Hurricanes! 37. 2005 : Manhattan Underwater by 2015 38. 1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985 39. 1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable 40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish 41. 1970s: Killer Bees! 42. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production 43. 1969: Worldwide Plague, Overwhelming Pollution, Ecological Catastrophe, Virtual Collapse of UK by End of 20th Century 44. 1972: Pending Depletion and Shortages of Gold, Tin, Oil, Natural Gas, Copper, Aluminum 45. 1970: Oceans Dead in a Decade, US Water Rationing by 1974, Food Rationing by 1980 46. 1988: World’s Leading Climate Expert Predicts Lower Manhattan Underwater by 2018 47. 2005: Fifty Million Climate Refugees by the Year 2020 48. 2000: Snowfalls Are Now a Thing of the Past 49.1989: UN Warns That Entire Nations Wiped Off the Face of the Earth by 2000 From Global Warming 50. 2011: Washington Post Predicted Cherry Blossoms Blooming in Winter
@diresock@mangeurdenuage our arable farm land is decreasing because our farming methods diminish the available biomass in the soil and harm the microbiology. I have yet to see any political solutions for this that make any sense. Mostly everyone seems to think we just need to dump more fertilizer and kill off the livestock
9. That did nothing, it was a scam, like all the rest. The case of Australia is telling. They claimed it was methane, and then recently it was "discovered" that methane isn't that big a deal actually, so what happened to the hole in the ozone over Australia? Who cares, just trust the science™.
11. Same as above. It wouldn't have happened anyway, and the only outcome was forcing smaller companies out of business.
28. Except population growth is decreasing, almost like infinite growth doesn't exist, and the very concept of "over population" is nonsense. Wasn't true then, isn't true now.
40. Partially but also due to other things... So not true at all.
42. I'm sure that's natural, and has nothing to do with food processing plants catching on fire by people who glow in the dark.
@diresock >9. 1974: Ozone Depletion a ‘Great Peril to Life Was true and worldwide regulation forced the ban on the gas responsible for it. >11. 1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes That was true and bills forced industries to install filters on their lines. >28. 1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide Still true today. >40. 1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish Partly true, but also due to over fishing. >42. 1975: The Cooling World and a Drastic Decline in Food Production Idk about the cooling world but the food production is indeed getting less and less important due to soil destruction/erosion cause to the farming practices.
@diresock@mangeurdenuage I think these problems are the result of policy and subsidies more than anything. Subsidies tend to favor more harmful methods. Pouring glysophate on crops is good in the eyes of the state. Monoculture farms that scale to insane levels are preferred over lots of small farms producing a variety of produce.
@mangeurdenuage@diresock Yeah I figured you were aware of how damaging modern farming is. It's one of the few real environmental issues I think we can actually see [and fix]. It's much more important in my opinion than the level of carbon in the atmosphere or the surface temp of the ocean. Not that I don't think climate change is a real phenomenon, but I doubt the attribution to human behaviors. I think the system is more complex than people like to admit and there are a number of natural factors that are probably more responsible for differences in temperature over time.
But the destruction of farm land and poisoning of our water with fertilizers and pesticides is directly attributed to human behavior, and it's effects can be seen everywhere (insert gay frogs joke).
As far as feeding the animals literal garbage, I'm not surprised. This is one of those things where if people had a closer relationship to the farms where they source their food I don't think it would matter if government allowed you to feed plastics because no one would buy those pigs and the farmers doing that would be out of business. Even seeing something like this video is unlikely cause people to stop eating grocery store pork, but if it was a farm they knew and visited on a semi-regular basis it wouldn't be concealed by the system or distant enough to ignore.
@thatguyoverthere@diresock >our arable farm land is decreasing because our farming methods diminish the available biomass in the soil and harm the microbiology I'm aware, I studied and applied micro biology.
>Mostly everyone seems to think we just need to dump more fertilizer and kill off the livestock Which is I agree utter nonsense. We however need to stop feeding the livestock garbage and treating it like garbage.
@thatguyoverthere@diresock I also agreed I'd add it's also due to lobbyist and greed. Even if the main synthetic fertilizer companies would go full Organic by producing mulch, mycorrhiza fungi, compost tea etc... in mass it would still be less profitable than just making salts from petrol.
@thatguyoverthere@diresock >of how damaging modern farming is Some stuff is good tho, the time saved thank for mechanization of the work is great, it however could be updated because tractor and heavy equipment in general compacts the soil too much.
>t's much more important in my opinion than the level of carbon in the atmosphere or the surface temp of the ocean. Indeed, especially when you know that a lot of these effects are indirectly/directly caused by such farming methods, like tilling for example which on average releases 20~30% more carbon in the atmosphere that's why ethanol isn't "carbon neutral" sadly. Or that the running off of the synthetic fertilizers due to the soil being incapable of keep it due to how damaged it is which runs in the seas etc...
>I think the system is more complex than people like to admit and there are a number of natural factors that are probably more responsible for differences in temperature over time. I agree, and one as to also consider that some data is falsified or erroneous. But that doesn't mean that methods that have negative impact on human health shouldn't be stopped.
>but if it was a farm they knew and visited on a semi-regular basis it wouldn't be concealed by the system or distant enough to ignore. Indeed. This is exactly what Yuri Bezmenov points out in his work, if you add unknown intermediates then the people don't know who to uphold responsible for thus they can't change with ease if they are even aware of it.
yeah totally. I just mean things like tilling, over fertilizing, pesticides, mistreatment of livestock/poultry, etc. I even think that we can use modern technology to enhance old ways of doing things (like testing soil ph and nutrient content and applying conventional amendments with greater precision).