Politics: the art of keeping the population alarmed by predicting imaginary dire events, so they beg to be kept safe by the government.
Think of: The coming ice-age in the ‘70s.
The HIV/AIDS SCARE IN THE 1980s
The Y2k scare in 1999.
SARS in the early 2000s.
Bird flue in the early 2000s.
Global warming, at present.
Tuhoe terrorists.
Spurious dietary- supplements warnings.
Running out of oil, ongoing.
And others.
Running out of oil, ongoing.
And others.
2 comments:
Steve,
I take it by Ice age you mean Nuclear winter?
...and I add “P Epidemic” to your list of apocalyptic horse riders.
Tim, I believe there were different scares, the 1st was the nuclear winter, due to a nuclear war, the other was a climate change which I think was in the 1980s.
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