I'm old enough to remember when the global population was growing too quickly and there was going to be massive resource exhaustion and starvation.
Hole in ozone layer “gonna kill us all” for me.
Acid raid for me.
Don’t forget Africanized bees
And radon!
Radon is only a problem in new, energy-efficient homes.
That’s not what they were screaming about in the 80’s and 90’s. If you had a basement you was gonna DIE! It was all BS of course.
I see. Yeah. I have 1 degree of separation from a whole family that died from cancer they got from radon. Long story short they had a newer home with a basement and the home was too "tight" for energy efficiency. Radon couldn't get out.
Yes. New, tight homes are horrible but not just with radon (which will kill you, no doubt). Probably the worst air quality you will find short of high summer in L.A. (smog) are in these houses and new construction buildings. Fresh air isn’t appreciated.
Yeah, good thing perhaps that they did that Montreal Protocol thing back in the 1980s...
Literally one of the few success stories
Ahh yes, the good old days. Pepperidge farms remembers
Then we discovered that natural resources are infinite and the jig was up
That's always been the narrative of the anti-human degrowth crowd.
Yep, taught an Earth Science course for a couple years back in late 90's and the text said we we'd be all out of oil about now.
You were also born in 1766? (Thomas Malthus)
Totalitarians still (want you to) believe that shit
If that had actually happened you wouldn't be around to complain about the incorrect prediction.
like yeah, some specific predictions were definitely over-the-top pessimistic world population is still growing, albeit slower, maybe saturating but there's definitely plenty of resource exhaustion, scarcity and starvation all around, being privileged westerners makes us able to ignore a lot, for now... though living costs are constantly rising i don't think we're quite free of that prediction yet
I don't know how far off the Club of Rome prediction was if it hadn't been for artificial fertilizer. But technology doesn't always save us just in time. We didn't anything to help folks in 1315. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1315%E2%80%931317