The Growing Media Genre of Scaremongering Drivel
If you wanted a classic example of the scaremongering (its all pure guesswork based on ludicrous computer models - not actual evidence) pseudoscientific media drivel that is driving hysteria...then here is a classic of its genre. It is entitled: Timeline: The Frightening Future of Earth. It is taken from the highly learned site entitled (don't laugh) 'Live Science'. 'Dead Duck' would be more apposite.
Water shortages, disease, famine, pestilence, plague, crop disasters, even the earth's rotation speeding up (Note to self: buy heavier souled shoes), it's all here. So you don't fall asleep should you choose to read it, try this exercise. After every couple of paragraphs, close your eyes briefly and imagine you are reading a script for Little House On The Prairie. Having said that, it would be IPCC approved.
Try it. You'll see what I mean. ("Oh Jon boy, the crops have failed again...your momma's fallen into the canyon ...there's a plague of locusts on the horizon and your little brother's leg has fallen off...want some grits for breakfast?")
Peter C Glover
in EnvironMENTALism, Media hype
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