By Nicholas Vardy From the energy crisis of the 1970s to pollution, famine, climate change and the next ice age, doom-and-gloomers are always predicting the “next big crisis.”
Today, Nicholas Vardy explains what history has shown us about these doomsday predictions.
I remember joining my high school debate team as a lowly freshman in the late 1970s.
Each year, high school teams across the country debated the designated topic of that academic year.
The topic in my first year was the energy crisis – and how we could best solve it.
I never went on to have great success as a debater.
But I did take away a valuable …read more
