The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
Rob Long ·
Apr 21, 2011 at 10:55am
Reason TV is always worth watching, but this video is a perfect way to celebrate Earth Day.
Which is tomorrow, in case it somehow slipped your mind.
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Oct '10
Re: The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
There is one missing, if we reduce the size of government, politicians will become extinct....
Apr '11
Re: The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
I remember reading a book where the author asserted that good science allows one to make accurate predictions based upon one's theories. If one's predictions fail; one's theories are incorrect.
The environmentalist movement has hidden behind the mantle of science but refuses to be held accountable for its own failed hypotheses. Worse, it has claimed the exclusivity to said mantle, declaring opposition to be unscientific while its predictions continue to falter.
Oct '10
Re: The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
There is one missing, if the size of government is reduced, politicians will become extinct.... Just simply waste away...
Jul '10
Re: The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
Their sandwich board would read: "When Is The Damn World Gonna End?!"
Feb '11
Re: The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
The counterargument will be that the government took action (Clean Water Act, it's virtually impossible to build a dam, Wetlands Act, Clean Air Act, regulations to have a new pesticide approved) so that the disasters (or some of them) were averted.
How true is that?
Edited on Apr 21, 2011 at 11:57amJun '10
Re: The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
And conservatives are the ones accused by the media of being anti-intellectual and anti-science?
Nov '10
Re: The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
What the video didn't mention is that the conclusions reached in Silent Spring were flat-out wrong. And they were known to actual scientists at the time, or soon after, it was banned, to be wrong - especially the thing about cancer. So not only did a Silent Spring crisis not occur, but action taken based on that idea led to the ban of one of the chemicals most useful for improving the condition of mankind.
Apr '11
Re: The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
I suppose they could argue that the ban on DDT has helped prevent over population.
May '10
Re: The Top 5 Environmental Disasters....That Didn't Happen
Wait, wait, wait. This time it's different!