The Daily Caller dug through their green archives and, in honor of Earth Day, found 7 predictions made by supposedly intelligent and accomplished scientists that, when read today, were hilariously wrong. Earth Day just isn't what it used to be. Back in the 70's, we were lectured by activists about how we were destroying the planet - mostly because there were too many people. In fact, the guru of overpopulation, Paul Erlich, is prominently featured on this list. Here are a few excerpts. You should read them all to get a sense of the hysteria that used to be generated in the old days: 1: “Civilization Will End Within 15 Or 30 Years” Harvard biologist Dr. George Wald warned shortly before the first Earth Day in 1970 that civilization would soon end “unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” Three years before his projection, Wald was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or...(Read Full Post)