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The sky has been falling on Man since at least the moment he learned how to write.
Consider:
When the Transcontinental Railroad was nearing completion, doctors -- doctors!!! -- were testifying to Congress that the human thorax would implode if ever accelerated to speeds over 50-60mph.
As usual, the Doom-n-Gloom gang have nothing substantial backing their "concerns" Re Global Warming(Note the speed with which Greenhouse went from a hypothesis to a cause, skipping the crucial step of providing a CAUSAL explanation.)
I'm told by a historian of philosophy who was active during the end of the Vietnam War that anyone monitoring the "journals" of the New Left could see this movement's reason-hating "intellectuals" debating whether or not their next issue should/could be Environmentalism.
-- But who's going to believe this nonsense?
-- They'll fear it!
Until I see a causal explanation for an evidentiary trend that takes the planet's entire geological history into account, I attribute this latest version of the falling sky to the disaster that is the West's intellectual class.
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