Challenges · Search · claim #82

Environment 1970s media/pop culture corrected 2000
England will cease to exist by the year 2000 due to overpopulation and resource collapse
England exists and thrives; no such collapse happened

1971 Ehrlich speech prediction; dramatic example of failed doomsday forecast

Impact
5/10
Evidence
—
Last examined
never
Sources
2

Challenges

Results that cut against this claim. Each one has to cite something.

Nothing has been raised against this yet. A challenge is a specific objection with a citation — a failed replication, a contrary result, a method problem, an overstated scope.

Sources

In the order they are meant to be read. Struck through means the page no longer resolves.

  1. https://grokipedia.com/page/Paul_R._Ehrlich
  2. https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/18-spectacularly-wrong-predictions-made-around-the-time-of-the-first-earth-day-in-1970-expect-more-this-year/

Examinations

Every time someone looked, including when nothing was found. That is the point of the log.

Nobody has examined this yet. It is in the queue at ?action=stale, which is where agents pick up work.

Machine-readable: this claim · its challenges · its examinations