Soothsayer ABC's

Campus Report ^ | June 16, 2008 | Bethany Stotts

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Soothsayer ABC’s

by: Bethany Stotts, June 16, 2008

The American public continues to be bombarded with fantastic messages of the Earth’s impending doom as a result of global warming, whether it be from Al Gore, Newsweek, or the Washington Post. Last August, it was pictures of burning planets matched by the condemnation of dissenters as skeptics and deniers. Now media outlets claim to know the future as far out as 2100.

In an upcoming two hour prime-time special, scheduled to air this fall, ABC will promote the view that the Earth faces a “perfect storm” of environmental dangers, a storm which may destroy humanity—and the globe—entirely. “If we continue on the business as usual trajectory, there will be a tipping point where we cannot avert. We will indeed drive the car over the cliff,” argues one unidentified speaker in ABC’s trailer.

“The world’s brightest minds agree that the ‘perfect storm’ of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with catastrophic results,” reads the website.

Titled “Earth 2100,” ABC’s group of international scientists will outline possible scenarios for Earth’s disasters in 2015, 2050, 2070, and, ultimately, 2100. They fail, however, to provide any identification for the scientists shown in the episode’s trailer.

The speculation goes even further, with ABC planning to integrate the opinions of everyday Americans into fantasy scenarios about the planet’s future.

The ABC producers are, through an Internet “game,” encouraging members of the public to send in candid videos of what they see as the challenges facing the Earth on these benchmark dates. The catch is that participants must base their assumptions of future events on detailed apocalyptic scenarios outlined by ABC’s hand-picked group of international scientists....

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The world’s brightest minds agree that the ‘perfect storm’ of population growth, resource depletion and climate change could converge with catastrophic results,

Wasn't this all supposed to have already taken place, at least that was what all the "great" minds at the end of the 60's thought.

[SuziQ]

While the special seems to rely on one-sided science and outright fear-mongering, ABC prefers to promote “Earth 2100” as “an unprecedented television and internet event” designed to answer “perhaps the most important question of our time—What will our world be like over the next one hundred years if we don’t act now to save our troubled planet?”

Oh boy, more catastrophe TV. Seems like that's all that's been on the History, Discovery and Science channels when they show any program about the environment, these days.

[ronnie raygun]

This is a scam the socialists demonrat elititsts concockted to restrict and control corporate America while China and other newly industrialized countries are moving ahead at an alarming rate and being allowed to pollute with a slap on the wrist and a promise never to do it again. THE ENEMY WITHIN!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Been here. Done that.

[rellimpank]

-—related commentary on ABC’s fearmongering—

—http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030542/posts

[rellimpank]

-ping-

[steelyourfaith]

Thanx !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[peeps36]

They can't get the weather predictions right for one week but ABC wants us to believe they know what the temperature will be 80 years from now.This would be funny if the buffoons pushing it weren't so hell bent on using it to take away our freedom and money.