Dear Source:
When I was much younger, I was jolted with fear every time I saw a flash of light through a window. I believed it had to be a nuclear blast in the distance and I was going to die because my family didn't have a fallout shelter.
Not much has changed over the years. Now we have Al Gore and the latest Chicken Littles offering their brand of catastrophe for me to contemplate. So let's take a moment and review a few of the terrors that, somehow, I've managed to survive:
acid rain,
ozone depletion,
global food shortages,
DDT,
over-population,
global cooling,
resource depletion,
"the Late Great Planet Earth",
The Japanese will dominate us,
Communism is indomitable,
bird flu,
West Nile disease,
Y2K,
second hand smoke,
55 MPH,
farmland is disappearing,
global water shortages,
1984,
massive amounts of bovine flatulence (honest!),
nuclear energy and it's waste,
"Limits to Growth",
hand guns,
global economic meltdown (whatever that is),
mad cow disease,
mass extinctions,
Club of Rome,
etc., etc., etc.
I think I'll just go lie down and wait for the inevitable.
George Merc.
St. John
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