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I nearly called this the Cassandra collection but that would be unfair to the Greek prophetess.  Her predictions of the future were seldom believed, but mostly turned out to be quite accurate.   Not so these.  

Populist environmentalists have generally gained a large and credulous audience by predicting impending disaster, but have consistently turned out to have been wrong.   Here are some examples.   Send me more.   

I've also put up some current predictions that may still come true.   You judge if it's time to panic.  We'll all be keeping an eye on them.  Click above to read the details.   

"Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions....By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine".   Peter Gunter, a professor at North Texas State University.  Spring 1970 issue of The Living Wilderness.  

Environmentalists aren't the only ones to get it wrong.

There will be a world market for about five computers." IBM chairman Thomas Watson’s in 1943.

"Knife and pain are two words in surgery that must forever be associated." Alfred Velpeau dissing anaesthesia in 1839

"The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued to a screen: the average American family hasn’t time for it." New York Times 1939 

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