First it was Huns, then communists - we had a little dust up with aliens in the 50's - then it was the "population bomb" in the 70's, aliens came back for a while, now it's the Sun which is going to kill us all. Oh, wait, - what? Asteroids? Oh, right - I wonder what it's going to be a hundred years from now?
They think we're are stupid as the people who vote expecting anything to change - oh . . .