David Suzuki and Jeremy Rifkin

In Instapundit today was a link to some criticism of Jeremy Rifkin. What I thought about while reading the piece is how you could substitute David Suzuki for Jeremy Rifkin in the article. Just like Rifkin, Suzuki has been prophesizing economic and environmental catastrophe for decades. And just like Rifkin, Suzuki has a similar track record of correct prophesies. But just like Rifkin in the States, Suzuki is a media darling in Canada.

It has never ceased to amaze me that the environmental movement is dominated by people like Rifkin and Suzuki who follow the Paul Ehrlich school of thought. You would think that after the debunking Julian Simons inflicted on Paul Ehrlich and Ehrlich's track record of prophesies we would see another type of spokeperson emerge.

I guess doom and gloom sells with the Main Stream Media. Now how do you get around having such a bad track record? Why you do what one acolyte of Suzuki has done and come up with the premise that we finally will have the catastrophes promised because we will finally run out of ideas. How pathetic.