I hear that climate change will destroy much of the world.
«There will be irreversible damage to the planet!» warns a CNN anchor.
Joe Biden …
I hear that climate change will destroy much of the world. «There will be irreversible damage to the planet!» warns a CNN anchor. Joe Biden says he’ll spend $500 billion a year to fight what his website calls an «existential threat to life.» Really? I’m a consumer reporter. Over the years, alarmed scientists have passionately warned me about many things they thought were about to kill Americans. Asbestos in hair dryers, coffee, computer terminals, electric power lines, microwave ovens, cellphones (brain tumors!), electric blankets, herbicides, plastic residue, etc., are causing «America’s cancer epidemic»! If those things don’t get us, «West Nile Virus will!» Or SARS, Bird Flu, Ebola, flesh-eating bacteria or «killer bees.» Experts told me millions would die on Jan.1,2000, because computers couldn’t handle the switch from 1999. Machines would fail; planes would crash. The scientists were well-informed specialists in their fields. They were sincerely alarmed. The more knowledge you have about a threat, the more alarmed you get. Yet, mass death didn’t happen. COVID-19 has been the only time in my 50 years of reporting that a scare proved true. Maybe you accepted the phrase I used above: «America’s cancer epidemic.
