Between 1970 and 1990, the word used up 600 billion barrels but, as of 1990, the word had 1.5 trillion barrels of known, unexploited oil reserves. In the 1970's, Lester Brown of Worldwatch Institute started predicting population growth would outsrtip food production. The Food and Agriculture Organization reports that calories consumed per person in Third World countries are 27 percent higher now than in 1961. Acid rain had to be an environmental catastrophe, no matter what the facts revealed. There are other false environmentalist claims, like urban sprawl is paving over vital cropland.
Nuclear power is dangerous.
People like Simon, who brought truth and reason to environmental hype and deliberate lies, are routinely dismissed as right-wing cranks and ignored by the media. The media treat environmentalists, who've been wrong time after time, as gods of the truth. Our continued belief in environmentalist mistakes, manipulation, lies and fearmongering leads us to establish public policies that kill people and reduce standards of living such as CAFE standards that dowsnsize autos and cause unnecessary highway deaths, energy-saving regulation that produce airtight sick buildings and the international push for birth control. Back to Walter Williams Back to Dave and Kelly Kleber's main page.