Yup, I recall the looming all-destroying terrors of:
Ice age.
Acid rain.
Ozone depletion.
etc
Today, it’s the “gonna kill us all in 10 years” threat of...
...ocean rising 1 foot over the next century.
Ocean rises more than that daily over lunch. And falls as much by dinner.
The one thing that really scares me is that our nation is in the grip of an epidemic of mental illness.
One manifestation of this is that Leftists are so eager to believe doomsday scenarios.