[blackdog]

I was told we would all be dead from a polluted environment in 1967, in the third grade. We even had a school play to act put our various ways pollution would be killing us.

Global cooling.

China Syndrome and Three Mile Island.

Aids.

Ebola.

Yada, yada, yada.

[Eleutheria5]

Tom Lehrer even sang songs about it.

I remember the ice caps melting in third grade, the new ice age coming when I was seventeen, the population bomb...

[Larry Lucido]

Don’t forget nuclear war - how many times?

[Eleutheria5]

One thing we also saw was the Cuban Missile Crisis resolved, the Cold War ending peacefully, the Berlin Wall come down, Adolf Eichmann put to death, the Vietnam War end, radical hippies get tired of their revolution and go to work on Wall Street. Things work themselves out.

[metmom]

You forgot, or are maybe too young to remember, the nuclear war drills we did as kids, hiding under our desks and in the coat rooms.

[CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC]

Yep. And don't forget other famous overhyped threats such as Acid Rain, DDT, salt-caused hypertension, Hillary's imminent victory, the Heartbreak of Psoriasis, Mueller's & Schiff's sleuthing producing myriad Impeachment-Ready-Projects, all FR-slowdowns being due to D-O-S attacks, the Deep State, ....

Whoa, wait a minute! I believe in that last one.

[WKUHilltopper]

Yeah, Cuban Missle Crises, Rooskis gonna nuke us, y2k, etc

[Himyar]

We spent a good chunk of our childhood huddled under our school desks doing drills against incoming Russian nukes. We got this.