Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Pat Buchanan - He's skeptical
History has many interesting lessons.
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from them...
Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from them...
At WorldNetDaily.com, Pat Buchanon reminds us:
"Parson Malthus predicted mass starvation 250 years ago, as the population was growing geometrically, doubling each generation, while agricultural production was going arithmetically, by 2 percent or so a year. But today, with perhaps 1 percent of our population in full-time food production, we are the best-fed and fattest 300 million people on Earth.
Karl Marx was proven dead wrong about the immiseration of the masses under capitalism and the coming revolution in the industrial West, though they still have hopes at Harvard.
Neville Chute's 'On the Beach' proved as fictional as 'Dr. Strangelove' and 'Seven Days in May.' Paul Ehrlich's "Population Bomb" never exploded. It fizzled when the Birth Dearth followed the Baby Boom.
'The Crash of '79' never happened. Instead, we got Ronald Reagan and record prosperity. The Club of Rome notwithstanding, we did not run out of oil. The world did not end in Y2K, when we crossed the millennium, as some had prophesied. 'Nuclear winter,' where we were all going to freeze to death after the soot from Reagan's nuclear war blotted out the sun, didn't quite happen. Rather, the Soviet Empire gave up the ghost."
