“Happy Earth Day” by Julian SimonterResource

“Happy Earth Day” by Julian Simon — MasterResource
During the first great Earth Week in 1970 there was panic.
The public’s outlook for the planet was unrelievedly gloomy.
The doomsaying environmentalists–of whom the dominant figure was Paul Ehrlich–raised the alarm: The oceans and the Great Lakes were dying;
 impending great famines would be seen on television starting in 1975;
 the death rate would quickly increase due to pollution;
and rising prices of increasingly-scarce raw materials would lead to a reversal in the past centuries’ progress in the standard of living.