We're Already Dead!

AD points us to FreedomWorks on the founding of Earth Day:  

"In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution… by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half." — Life magazine

Tanning beds are our only hope.

"At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it's only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable." — Ecologist Kenneth Watt

At least nitrogen composes 78.08% of Earth's atmosphere, as opposed to the less than 0.97% that includes carbon dioxide.  

"By the year 2000, if present trends continue, we will be using up crude oil at such a rate… that there won't be any more crude oil. You'll drive up to the pump and say, ‘Fill 'er up, buddy,' and he'll say, ‘I am very sorry, there isn't any.'" — Ecologist Kenneth Watt

Gas stations attendants have been wiped out. 

"[One] theory assumes that the earth's cloud cover will continue to thicken as more dust, fumes, and water vapor are belched into the atmosphere by industrial smokestacks and jet planes. Screened from the sun's heat, the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born." — Newsweek magazine

 Water vapor is falling from the sky!  Run for your lives!

Forgot to add, for our environmental Cassandras, the Firefly quote, from "Out of Gas".

River Tam speaking to Shepherd Book:  You're afraid we're going to run out of air.  That we'll die gasping.  But we won't.  That's not going to happen.  [Book looks up with a glimmer of hope.]  We'll freeze to death first.