One final entry before I leave for Ocracoke–because I post so often, don’t you know.
Some advice for the Republican congressional candidates, though it comes too late.
Why not run with this motto? “The Contract with America. This time we mean it.”
Archive for October 20th, 2006
Another reason why I’m sanguine when it comes to confronting those–typically my neighbors on the nights when we gather in the cul-de-sac and drink fine alcohols–who are enamored of doom and gloom when it comes to the world situation; Mark Steyn via Austin Bay.
— 1968, in “The Population Bomb,” distinguished scientist Paul Ehrlich declared, “In the 1970s the world will undergo famines — hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.”
– 1972, in “The Limits to Growth,” the Club of Rome announced that the world would run out of gold by 1981, of mercury by 1985, tin by 1987, zinc by 1990, petroleum by 1992, and copper, lead and gas by 1993.
– 1976, Lowell Ponte published a huge bestseller called “The Cooling: Has the New Ice Age Already Begun? Can We Survive?”
– 1977, Jimmy Carter confidently predicted that “we could use up all of the proven reserves of oil in the entire world by the end of the next decade.”
“None of these things occurred,” Steyn writes. “Contrary to the doom-mongers’ predictions, millions didn’t starve.” .
I’m even sanguine when it comes to predictions of Europe’s death by demography. Europeans as a whole are racists, despite the political contortions of the elites there to prove otherwise, and so a time will come when the Muslim populations there will either integrate or be forced out. It won’t be pretty, and it would be nice to think that the change will come peacefully, but the longer it takes to reach that tipping point, the more violent the change will be once it inevitably arrives.