Big Sky Cairn

Almost there. 1970’s or 2000’s? Can you tell?

____ “Meanwhile, the rest of the world has been enduring more serious and probably more significant changes.  The African drought, threatening to turn a wide swath of sub-Saharan Africa into an extended desert, has caused thousands of deaths by famine and related diseases, while millions are kept alive by emergency food alone.  Similar dry weather patterns have been observed in a heavily populated “drought belt,” extending through the Middle East to India, South Asia, and Northern China.”

____ “Without disciplined world-wide planning, half of the world’s population could die through war, fighting on smaller scale, starvation or cold.”

____ “The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologists are hard-pressed to keep up with it.”

____ “If the climatic change is as profound as some of the pessimists fear, the resulting famines could be catastrophic.”

____ “But the scientists see few signs that government leaders anywhere are even prepared to take the simple measures of stockpiling food or of introducing the variables of climatic uncertainty into economic projections of future food supplies.”