[Marxism] Doomsday And Its Effect on the Left: WAS Re: Worst Environmental Problem? Overpopulation, Experts Say

[Paddy Apling]

Dear  Listers,

As an 84-year old with a 60-year professional life in what is now known as 
"environmentalism", first in the public analytical service, then in the food 
and water industry, and then 25 years in Food Science at University of 
Reading, I continue to be appalled at how so much of left discussion just 
echoes that of the media doomsday forecasts - and incidentally how many of 
my younger scientific colleagues are bound up in it as well.

First we had the over-population scenario, - shades of Malthus; then 
acid-rain, the "death of the Great Lakes" and the Scandinavian forests, then 
the forecast of a new Ice Age, the the "scourge" of Global Warning - they 
are all still around, and the forecasts get worse and worst - though we all 
seem to survive as humanity has done for millennia - through changes much 
worse than even the forecasts !!