{"id":523,"date":"2016-04-27T10:02:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cruithni.wordpress.com\/?p=523"},"modified":"2016-04-27T10:02:53","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:02:53","slug":"18-spectacularly-wrong-apocalyptic-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-aei-carpe-diem-blog-aeideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=523","title":{"rendered":"18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year &#8211; AEI | Carpe Diem Blog \u00bb AEIdeas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Day was founded by a man who <a href=\"http:\/\/poorrichardsnews.com\/founder-of-earth-day-murdered-his-girlfriend\/\">killed and composted his girlfriend<\/a>. But that\u2019s not the only tragedy that surrounds it. Failed predictions of disaster is another one:<\/p>\n<p>In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled \u201cEarth Day, Then and Now\u201d to provide some historical perspective on th<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aei.org\/publication\/18-spectacularly-wrong-apocalyptic-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year-2\/\">18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year &#8211; AEI | Carpe Diem Blog \u00bb AEIdeas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Day was founded by a man who killed and composted his girlfriend. But that\u2019s not the only tragedy that surrounds it. Failed predictions of disaster is another one: In the May 2000 issue of Reason Magazine, award-winning science correspondent Ronald Bailey wrote an excellent article titled \u201cEarth Day, Then and Now\u201d to provide some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=523\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">18 spectacularly wrong apocalyptic predictions made around the time of the first Earth Day in 1970, expect more this year &#8211; AEI | Carpe Diem Blog \u00bb AEIdeas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}