Earth extremists have bad record

Since we just celebrated another Earth Day, let's check their prediction track record. The First Earth Day was in 1970 and they made the following predictions: 1) by the year 2000, the earth would be 11 degrees cooler and we would be entering an ice age. 2) 75-80 percent of all species on Earth at that time would disappear by 2000. 3) 4 billion people would starve to death by 2000. 4) The earth would run out of oil by 2000.

Thank goodness our government at the time had the maturity and common sense not to listen to these extremists and none of those predictions came true as we as a people excelled at adapting and responding to each of the issues (the earth took care of itself on the global cooling issue).

Today, many of those same environmental extremists are now claiming that man made global warming will destroy the earth despite the fact that we have had a global cooling trend recently and 33,000 scientists have signed a document saying that man is not the cause of global warming or there is no global warming. Yet we apparently now have a hysterical government that is willing to spend trillions of your dollars to tax CO2, which will bankrupt this nation, dramatically increase your cost of living through everything that you buy or consume, and insure the loss of millions of American jobs to China and India because they won't tax CO2 and they will have a huge cost advantage over American products. Given how wrong the extremists were in 1970, are you willing to bet your future, your children's future, and the future of this nation on these environmental extremists that were so wrong before?

If we as a people fall for this hysteria and let it happen through ignorance, naiveté, or complacency, we will deserve what we get.

Randy Rossi

Grayslake