Prediction:
“In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution,” reported Life magazine in 1970. “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,” said ecologist Kenneth Watt.
As nebulous as this prediction was, there is no buildup of Nitrogen or nitrogen compounds in the atmosphere and crop production is at an all time high.
