Yesterday was Earth Day, so I hoped you hugged a tree or kissed a marmoset, or something. But way back in 1970, when the first Earth Day was celebrated, several prominent scientists made a bevy of predictions about the near future that make us wonder what it was they were smoking. Mark Perry of AEI compiled a nice little list of predictions made around the first Earth Day that are cringe-worthy for the predictor and hysterically funny for the rest of us. Here are a few of the 18 that Perry dug up: 4. “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make,” Paul Ehrlich confidently declared in the April 1970 Mademoiselle. “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years.” 5. “Most of the people who are going to die in the greatest cataclysm in the history of man have already been born,” wrote Paul Ehrlich in...(Read Full Post)