[SamAdams76]

If you could go back in time to a bookstore of the 1970s (i.e. Paperback Booksmith), the shelves would be full of books proclaiming the coming overpopulation "bomb", world famine, global cooling (ice age coming!), that we were running out of something vital to our existence, whether it be oil, oxygen, water, or fish, and so on.

According to all those alarmist paperback books by "renowned" scientists, experts and other over-educated twerps who were allergic to real work, we were all supposed to be dead by 1990, give or take.

Then along came skeptics/satirists like P.J. O'Rourke and Tom Wolfe, to make fun of them all and make their alarmist pronouncements seem silly. But that didn't stop them from getting Nobel prizes and Pulitzers for their dopey theories.

[bert]

In my view, there is a difference in Africa. Africa has not the means to prevent nor stop some terrible plague that could kill millions in the large cities once begun.

[Bogey78O]

The big difference between then and now is that they control the gov’t and they’ll be damned if it’s going to be avoided.

We gave thew keys to the church to Jim Jones and we’re surprised the Kool-Aid at the mixer tastes funny.