by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 6, 1997

First, the famous Club of Rome warned us that the world’s oil was about to run out. Then came the “Crash of ‘79″ crowd to predict a second Great Depression, 50 years after the first. Then, the new Malthusians arrived to warn that soaring population growth meant starvation soon on a global scale.

Apocalypse never came, but its purveyors became famous, were widely interviewed and made scads of money, which is why the Chicken Little Chair of American Politics will never for long be vacant. Newest claimants: the Cassandras of “Global Warming”!