For a slam-dunk, end-of-discussion, case-closed issue, there seems to be a lot of people still talking.
rvastar’s post made me chuckle. I too, recall that people have been predicting impending planetary doom forever. As a kid in the 70s I remember reading that sometime in the near future California was going to fall off into the ocean when the big one hit, and an ocean was going to open up in the middle of the US due to something…volcano? earthquake? Don’t recall.
I also remember all the talk of the inevitable nuclear winter that was to come. And what about all the dire population explosion predications? India should be a wasteland, and we should all be eating our young by now. While in college in the 80s, I learned that the growing debt crisis in the third world was going to destroy the world economy heralding in a major worldwide depression any day now!!!
And then came the 90s, I grew up, and the world did not come to an end.
Back then serious people viewed those prognosticators as sensationalist quacks; or simply, economists*. Today apparently they are called climate scientists.
(And don’t get me started on the “starve a child, save the planet” nutjobs who think the world would be much better off without ANY people on it. They are setting the environmentalist movement back to the stone age.)
Me- I’ll worry about something else like, I dunno… Yellowstone Park exploding. It’s gonna happen. I saw it on HBO… or was it Showtime?
*(One of my majors was in economics so I think I’m entitled to make that joke).
