Episode #39 The Power of Prediction

Predictions of future dire catastrophes abound in our world today.  For example, human population growth will ruin the natural world, a meteor may hit earth and wipe out all life, giant volcanic eruptions could put so much ash into the air that we would experience another ice age, and so on.  But the problem with predictions is they cannot be validated until they come to pass.  Unless....    Uplook Magazine October 2006, p.4.  References:  R. Carson, Silent Spring, (New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1962); G.O. Abell, Exploration of the Universe, (New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974); P. Longman, The Empty Cradle: How falling birthrates threaten world prosperity, (New York, NY: Basic Books, 2004).