[kevhito]

Can you give me a citation for your first quote (from George Ward). Although it seems to show up on a lot of self-described "climate skeptic" pages, I can't seem to find any legitimate source for it. It shows up in wikipedia as well, but the citation there just leads to the same tangled mess of "climate skeptic" pages that all seem to cite each other.

I'm really curious if George Wald said this at all, and if he did, what specifically he was talking about. Nuclear proliferation was another of his areas of activism, for example.

[southern_cross]

Maybe someone with access to Ward's papers at the Harvard campus can help you out here. See the following; search for "Earth Day".

http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hua02000

[barkingtoad]

We should be able to derive this from the immediate actions that were taken in 1970-71 that actually prevented the end of civilization.