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• Tuesday, July 1, 2008 03:27 AM

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  If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.

  —Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

  This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.

  —Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976

  In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.

  —Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

  This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.

  —Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

  The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.

  —Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man”, (1971)

  To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.

  —Lamont Cole

  Cannibalism is a “radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”

  —Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995

  Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.

  —Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!

  Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.

  —John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

  What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.

  —Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)

  We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!

  —Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue).

  —Brute. Read Brute.'s other letters
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