Obiter Dictum--An American: "Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology) -- Marvin Gaye & Greta Thunberg (so much in common).

In 1971, Marvin Gaye was warning, through his music,

how we were all going to die....how we were

killing Mother Earth.

Every decade has seen doomsdayers warning us that we only had 'x' number of years to live, before we all spontaneously burst into flames.

For decades, they have been indoctrinating our children, worldwide. Fear mongering...only (for them) to live still another day, tabulating the trillions of dollars they have stolen from those who could least afford to give yet another dime.

They've been through a desert on

A Horse With No Name

And now, they have their newest recruit. A 16-year-old Swedish girl. Traveling the world, sounding the alarm, and similar to past Chicken Littles, preaching to everyone; 'the sky is falling, the sky is falling.'

Someone, please send this along to poor fidgety little Greta.

Give her at least one (no, make that 12) reason(s) to

live another day.

*For Earth Day 2008, the Washington Policy Center issued a press release quoting the “outrageously alarmist, and outrageously wrong, predictions that accompanied the first Earth Day in 1970.”

Here are a few:

• “…civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.”—Biologist George Wald, Harvard University, April 19, 1970

• By 1995, “…somewhere between 75 and 85 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”—Sen. Gaylord Nelson, quoting Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, Look magazine, April 1970

• Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor “…the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born.”—Newsweek magazine, Jan. 26, 1970

• The world will be “…11 degrees colder in the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us into an ice age.”—Kenneth Watt, speaking at Swarthmore University, April 19, 1970

• “We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.”—Biologist Barry Commoner, University of Washington, writing in the journal Environment, April 1970

• “Man must stop pollution and conserve his resources, not merely to enhance existence but to save the race from the intolerable deterioration and possible extinction.”—The New York Times editorial, April 20, 1970

• “By 1985, air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half.”—Life magazine, January 1970

• “Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make.”—Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970

• “…air pollution…is certainly going to take hundreds of thousands of lives in the next few years alone.”—Paul Ehrlich, interview in Mademoiselle magazine, April 1970

• Paul Ehrlich predicted that in 1973, 200,000 Americans would die from air pollution, and that by 1980 the life expectancy of Americans would be 42 years.

• “It is already too late to avoid mass starvation.”—Earth Day organizer Denis Hayes, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970

• “By the year 2000…the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America and Australia, will be in famine.”—Peter Gunter, North Texas State University, The Living Wilderness, Spring 1970

Do you see today's date, Greta?

We are all still here, well not all of us...sadly young Marvin died way too early at the age of 45 in 1984.

The good news is, Greta....that YOU are here. YOU are alive and well. An able, and intelligent young girl. YOU and YOUR peers have much to live for, new days will always (I repeat) will always be coming; just as they have for past generations. And new days will continue to come, far into the future. No, so-called scientist has anywhere near the intelligence they give themselves credit for, to predict ANYTHING about future human existence. Most are no better than the Ted Dansons, and the Al Gores of this, ~~sometime~~ most-times, very confused world, who use their public notoriety as a vehicle to advance personal ambitions. Some for fame, and the fortunes it might bring. And the others, for greed and self exaltation.

So you see, Greta. Marvin, and millions of others believed this Planet is worth saving. And please take my word...I've been here for almost too many years to now count. Most of us believe, and probably rightfully so, that our time here has, at least in part, been dedicated to making this a better place. A place to pass along to people like you, your generation, and those who will follow, long into an unforeseeable future.

Marvin had it right...singing about "the ecology."

Maybe he didn't have all the facts in 1971, nor 20/20 vision about the future,

but he sure left us with pretty music.