Let's Stop Scaring Ourselves.....M. Crichton

[MacCovern]

Very good article by famous author Michael Crichton in Parade magazine
today. It can also be seen at the Parade.com website. It's all about societal fears, such as Y2K, global warming, killer bees, population explosion w/ global starvation, and many others of the last forty years.
I have to agree with Crichton, and take it a step further. I am sick of all the "sky is falling" pop culture fears that never materialize.

One paragraph from the articles goes:

"I was reminded of this when I came across this 1972
statement about climate: "We simply cannot afford to gamble...We cannot
risk inaction. Those scientists who are acting irresponsibly.
The indications that our climate can soon change for the worse are too strong to be reasonably ignored." This author wasn't concerned about global warming. He was worried about global cooling and the coming ice age. ---------------

Other snipets from the article include a prediction from the Club of Rome that world population would reach 14 billion by 2030. The Club of Rome also predicted, in the 1970's, that by 1993 the world would have exhausted supplies of gold, mercury, tin, etc. The Club of Rome appears to be one think tank that wasn't thinking very well!

I learned a long time ago to put a mute button on the doomsayers of this world!

Even here on DU recently, one topic included a subject of possible internment camps being setup in the USA for gays, and a few weeks ago a couple of DUers were concerned that the U.S. would use nuclear weapons in Fallujah. Come on now! It's just more instances of people scaring themselves based on no factual information.