Ed Driscoll: Incidentally, it’s worth flashing back to all of the doomsday enviro-prognosticators of the 1970s, and how much they got wrong — hilariously so, in retrospect: Here’s the video…
Of course, this time the prognosticator’s are right, just like Boulderites.
I remember “The Late Great Planet Earth” with Orson Welles from its movie poster, showing the earth on fire. I didn't watch it at the time. It was out at the same time as another movie I went to see called, “The Other Side of the Mountain,” a true and depressing story about a promising professional skier in the 1950s who became crippled after a skiing accident. The two movies kind of went together.
I watched “The Late Great Planet Earth” a few years ago online. I was surprised that it had an almost solely religious basis. It talked about “what scientists say,” but it wasn't like “An Inconvenient Truth” at all. Welles kept citing scripture from various religions about “the end times.” It was more like the popular predictions about 2012 from the Mayan calendar. The movie didn't come out and say, “The end of the world is nigh,” but kept suggesting, “This looks troubling.” It's pretty boring to watch now, because it's apparent it was all based on mumbo jumbo.