The sky is falling!

All of Friends alarming growth projections are based on the late Bubble economy of the Clinton/Greenspan era, where the money supply was rapidly and massively inflated.

In case anyone missed it, that boom crashed and the economy isn’t doing quite as well these days. Indeed, if current trends continue, the loss of the dollar’s value and rising commodity prices will put a much more effective stop to growth than even the Friend’s wildest dreams could imagine.

Well, maybe not quite yet, but...

"...one might cite Dr. Paul Ehrlich, the Grand Old Man of Eco-quackery, for forty years a most venerated doomsday campaigner, who has battled ferociously against global warming, making an alarming case for the immanent incineration of planet Earth.However, since the early Sixties, with equal conviction, scattered among his many, many, many writings, Ehrlich has also prophesied..
1. A new ice age.
2. The start of World War III on October 13, 1979
3. Massive starvation in India by the early 70s.
4. Massive worldwide starvation by the 80s.
5. Massive shortages of fuel and industrial raw materials by the 90s.
6. The reduction of the population of the United States to 22.5 million by 1999 because of famine and global warming. Back