X-Message-Number: 18848
From: "George Smith" <>
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Subject: The End of the World according to Chicken Little.
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 11:03:19 -0800

In Message #18843: "future planet?" Tracey Simon shared information about
Antarctica melting.

Setting aside the usual unending arguments back and forth ("Your data
sucks!" versus "No, it doesn't") as well as the usual ad homonym attacks
("Troglodyte!" versus "Moron!"), I will simply suggest that it isn't the end
of the world ... again.

For over thirty three years I have been exposed to "proofs" that THIS TIME
the evidence is incontrovertible.  The world ends tomorrow!

Pure hubris.

Three things ARE true in my humble opinion.

(1) If the world is ending then there 's not a damn thing anyone you know
can do about it ... YET.
(2) In the near future we WILL be able to do something about it as
technology empowers us.
(3) Herd monkey strategies to "Save the Planet" are ALWAYS a waste of time
and effort.

Instead, these are MY predictions:

NO major cities are going underwater anytime soon (I exclude Venice which is
sinking, not being flooded).

California will NOT slip into the sea.

Atlantis will NOT rise from the ocean.

The sky is NOT falling.

And at least once every year that another new doomsday prediction will be
made.

And it won't happen.

Just my usual mildly optimistic opinion,

George Smith
CI member

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