What other doom and gloom ideas have we been told throughout the years?
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I remember Paul Ehrlich's book "The Population Bomb" from the 1970's. That was the big environmental scare back then.
People talked about that and the media hyped it the way they are hyping Global Warming today.
Y2K was a biggie
Bird Flu
Mad Cows
SARS
Alar apple poisoning
Killer Bees
Swine flu
legionnaire's disease
DDT (Ironically, the banning of DDT has led to over a 100 million dead that could have lived through its use; 3 million more every year...)
Ozone depletion
"Ignition" of the Van Allen belts
China syndrome
If you look toward the southern sky you'll see the tailend of the comet that was supposed to hit Earth and kill us all.
Here, try this Kool-Aid.
If we keep using horses we will be up to our necks in manure..from the 1800s and for real.
I seem to recall that nuclear war was inevitable and we all needed to build fallout shelters in our back yards and put in survival supplies for one year until the radioactivity dissipated.
I believe that when the trains were first invented, scientists agreed that man would die instantly if he moved over 30 mph.
And that if a black cat crossed your path you would have immediate bad luck
Well you can go back all the way Nostradamus,as well but if you really wan to know how many nay Sayers have predicted the end of the world or major catastrophes than go check out the History channel they will give you a wealth of information or and even better information on that point the Bible,and (Revelations),I mean if you do not believe that then you will not believe anything.
The Earth isn't the center of the universe
The Earth isn't flat
The stars aren't Gods
Yes there have been a lot of stupid hairless apes over the centuries, you probably know one ... just walk down the hall to the bathroom and look in the mirror.
In the 1920s economists said that the irrational belief in the stock market will lead to an economic crisis. But people ignored that and partied on.
In the early 1930s we were told that a guy named Hitler had some very dangerous ideas and was a threat to the world. Even after he invaded Poland, many Americans wanted to just ignore him.
Later in the 30s scientists suggested that hydrogen was not a safe way to support the dirigible "Hindenburg". People cheerfully ignored that and booked passage.
Engineers desperately tried to stop the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger in very cold weather, because it was never designed to do that. But politicians ignored them and launched it anyway.
Hmmm..
There will not be enough food to go around. We will all die of AIDS. The government is here to help you.
Man, I could make this list long!
Fight the FEAR!
Terrorists want to kill our children and way of life
Communism had spread into Central American and around the world and the US was surrounded.
Communist had infiltrated Hollywood and wanted to destroy America.
During the Black Plague... if you didn't repent and give pay the church you were going to be killed and go to hell
Nearly everything causes cancer.
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