The Sky is Falling!

In 1980 Paul Ehrlich, a Stanford scientist who predicted calamitous food shortages by 1990, accepted a bet with economist Julian Simon. When Ehrlich predicted the imminent exhaustion of many nonrenewable natural resources, Simon challenged him:

"Pick a "basket" of any five such commodities, and I will wager that in a decade the price of the basket will decline, indicating decreased scarcity."

Ehrlich picked five metals -- chrome, copper, nickel, tin and tungsten -- that he predicted would become more expensive. Not only did the price of the basket decline, the price of all five declined.

http://townhall.com/columnists/GeorgeWill/2009/02/16/the_law_of_doomsaying?page=full&comments=true