Walter Williams: ‘Environmentalists Are Dead Wrong’

By Walter E. Williams Each year, Earth Day is accompanied by predictions of doom. Let’s take a look at past predictions to determine just how much confidence we can have in today’s environmentalists’ predictions. In 1970, when Earth Day was conceived, the late George Wald, a Nobel laureate biology professor at Harvard University, predicted, “Civilization […]

Earth Day Must Divorce Itself From The Climate Scare

By Tom Harris All sensible people are environmentalists. We want to enjoy clean air, land, and water and we like to think that future generations will live in an even better environment. These were the original objectives of Earth Day and I am happy to have presented at Earth Day events in the early 1990s. […]

CNN criticized on Earth Day for daring to air a climate skeptic

By Thomas Lifson There was a certain melancholy about Earth Day 2017. The decades of failed predictions of doom, those damn frackers giving us cheap gas back, and now the Trump administration cutting regulations. No wonder some of the front men are getting a little testy. Like Bill Nye, the guy who doesn’t have a […]

13 Most Ridiculous Predictions Made on Earth Day, 1970

Jon Gabriel, Ed. April 21, 2017 38 COMMENTS Saturday is Earth Day — an annual event first launched on April 22, 1970. The inaugural festivities (organized in part by then hippie and now convicted murderer Ira Einhorn) predicted death, destruction and disease unless we did exactly as progressives commanded. Sound familiar? Behold the coming apocalypse, […]

March “for Science” — an attempt to replace the failing Earth Day

Today, the misnomer “March for Science” is trying to take over the aging faded Earth Day. It’s an attempt to steal the good brand “Science” yet again for other causes. Once upon a time, Earth Day used to mean something. Back in 1970, 20 million people took part, 12,000 events were held: Congress took the […]

Study: DiCaprio’s Oscar Speech Did More For Climate Change Than Earth Day

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar acceptance speech comments urging action on climate change drew more attention on social media than Earth Day, according to a study out of the University of California San Diego. The study, titled “Big Data Sensors of Organic Advocacy: The Case of Leonardo DiCaprio and Climate Change,” was published Aug. 2 in […]

These 7 Predictions From The Original Earth Day Were Way Off | The Daily Caller

These 7 Predictions From The Original Earth Day Were Way Off | The Daily Caller https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2016/04/22/these-7-predictions-from-the-original-earth-day-were-way-off-the-daily-caller/ Environmentalists truly believed and predicted that the planet was doomed during the first Earth Day in 1970, unless drastic actions were taken to save it. Humanity never quite got around to that drastic action, but environmentalists still recall the […]