Forty Year Cycle Of Scientific Psychosis Discovered

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The nutcases are at it again:

The World as We Know It Is About to End, Say Some Really Frightened Scientists

A new study by 22 biologists and ecologists has found that environmental changes on our planet are reaching a point of no return that leads to mass extinctions and harms human welfare. The situation, said one scientist, scares the hell out of me. That would be James H. Brown, one of the authors of alarming paper published by Nature, talking to New York Times Green blogger Justin Gillis. Brown is not one of your everyday cranks predicting raptures and the end of days. He is a macroecologist at the University of New Mexico. And as The Atlantics James Fallows, who pointed out this terrifying study to us, writes, this could be the most important news of 2012. How soon do these scientists expect the world as we know it to end? Gillis writes, within a few human generations, if not sooner. The most frightening thing is that this finding isnt about what will come if we do not act, but that our effects on the planets environment global warming, population growth, and overall resource extraction means that weve already passed a tipping point.

The World as We Know It Is About to End, Say Some Really Frightened Scientists Global The Atlantic Wire

There appears to be a forty year cycle of mental illness in the scientific community. This is what they were saying in 1970:

Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.

George Wald, Harvard Biologist

We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.

Barry Commoner, Washington University biologist

By[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s.

Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions.By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine.

Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University

It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.

Denis Hayes, chief organizer for Earth Day

Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to supportthe following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollutionby 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.

Life Magazine, January 1970

Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.

Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, its only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable.

Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Air pollutionis certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.

Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist

We are prospecting for the very last of our resources and using up the nonrenewable things many times faster than we are finding new ones.

Martin Litton, Sierra Club director

By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a ratethat there wont be any more crude oil. Youll drive up to the pump and say, `Fill er up, buddy, and hell say, `I am very sorry, there isnt any.

Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.

New York Times editorial, the day after the first Earth Day

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

Sen. Gaylord Nelson

We have about five more years at the outside to do something.

Kenneth Watt, ecologist

The world has been chilling sharply for about twenty years. If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.

Kenneth Watt, Ecologist

Earth Day, Then and Now Reason.com

What form of mental illness makes people so desperate for attention? Maybe they should go to the pound and adopt a kitten.

http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/06/09/forty-year-cycle-of-scientific-psychosis-discovered/

I suspect the same sort of psychosis is being exhibited by the gun wielding doomsday preppers.

Edited May 13, 2013 by The Patriot