The less the Wisdom of God is heeded, the more people rely on fallible human calculations.

We may remember being told in the 1960s that within 20 years, overpopulation would cause universal starvation. Instead, we now have crises of empty cradles and obesity.
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In 1997, the Reuters newswire announced that by 2020 some 8 million people would have died because of global warming catastrophes, while such deaths actually have reached historic lows.