Quote:NYT Death and Starvation 1974

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❝ The facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade. If policy makers do not account for this oncoming doom, “mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence. ❞
~ New York Times ℹ️
December 29, 1974 


Full Quote: A number of climatologists, whose job it is to keep an eye on long-term weather changes, have lately been predicting deterioration of the benign climate to which we have grown accustomed… Various climatologists issued a statement that “the facts of the present climate change are such that the most optimistic experts would assign near certainty to major crop failure in a decade,” If policy makers do not account for this oncoming doom, “mass deaths by starvation and probably in anarchy and violence” will result.

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