I was owner of Muckler Typographic Corporation in 1970. We had a small typography shop in St. Louis that employed about 25 craftsmen on two shifts. We provided typography services for advertising agencies and art studios. One of our clients was the prestigious Winfield Advertising Agency in Clayton, Missouri. We won a New York Art Directors Award in 1970 for a piece we produced for the agency.

About the same time, Winfield awarded us the typographical work for an original newsletter written by Dr. Barry Commoner of Washington University in St. Louis. The theme of this well-done artistic monthly newsletter was the coming Ice-Age. I performed the mark-up (specifications), proofreading and client contact for this project. I became deeply immersed in the coming Ice-Age that was going to end the world in the next few decades.

Dr. Commoner was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 28, 1917. He received his bachelor's degree in zoology from Columbia University in 1937 and his master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University in 1938 and 1941. After serving as a lieutenant in the United States Navy during World War II, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he became a professor of plant physiology at Washington University. In 1966, he founded the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems to study "the science of the total environment".

Dr. Commoner, while seeming to be a nice guy, is often billed as a physicist and an ecologist. He does not hold degrees in either of those disciples. He is purported to be the author of “The Four Laws of Ecology.” You can research these laws and decide what you think of them. I don’t think they are worth a copy and paste job.

Earth Day was conceived in 1970. George Wald, a Nobel laureate biology professor at Harvard University, then predicted “Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind.” Well that was 47 years ago, 3 times more than 15, and Mother Earth is still here.

In 1969, Paul Ehrlich told the Britain’s Institute of Biology: “If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.”

Still on the map, eh?

Also in 1970, he declared “the world’s population would soon outstrip food supplies.”

I was paying attention then, and I’m still eating now.

I remember the first Earth Day when Paul Ehrlich warned, “In 10 years, all important animal life in the sea will be extinct.”

We had salmon on Friday.

How about another bold prediction, “The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next 10 years.”

Don’t you just love the leftist doom and gloom the GOATS dribble out and then receive artificial awards.

Despite these idiotic and fraudulent predictions, Ehrlich has won 16 awards, including the 1990 Crafoord Prize, the highest award from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. And the left just gobbles up this rot as if it were important.

In July 1975, Nigel Calder, in International Wildlife, stated, “The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.”

In Science News (1975), C.C. Wallen, of the World Meteorological Organization, told Science News in 1975, “The cooling since 1940 has been large enough and consistent enough that it will not soon be reversed.”

Since that lie didn’t work, they made a quick pivot to “global warming” and when that didn’t work, they told us it was generic climate change. I’ve been around since 1935 and the climate has changed almost every day and there is still no ‘Ice Age” and the beach is still the same. Heck, I’ve seen all four season in one day in my home state of Missouri.

Finally, an author who brings you solutions, instead of problems.

Americans have lost faith in their overreaching federal government. “We the People” don’t need to be overregulated or have their taxes misspent. Americans are victims of a crumbling economy, high prices and stagnant wages. They view government as bloated and politicians as corrupt.

They do not trust the leadership at any level. They see politicians of both parties as self-centered narcissists whose only objective is re-election. The author is like you, with one principal difference and 20 reasons for optimism. His “Vision” of America is “clear.” It is a vision of the Constitution and America the way it could be, the way it should be. The author’s eyesight is twenty-twenty.