Reply #11: Doomsday Report?

[MacCovern]

That gives me a near perspective on fear to get a "reality check" from someone who mentions the Doomsday Report.

Yes, we are running out of oil, and you will see more and more hybrid vehicles on the road in years and decades to come. After that, other energy sources will be utilized. It will be a bump in the road and not a catastrophe.

Yes, the climate has changed, and it has changed time and time again over the last several million years. We will adjust and it won't be doomsday or anywhere close.

No, there are not too many people to feed. There are problems with agriculture and food distribution, but there will not be any mass starvation. In the USA right now, we have a pandemic of mass obesity that is a much more important problem!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, the environment is polluted, and it will always be a difficult issue to deal with, but in the USA pollution is far better now than it was when I was a kid growing up in the late 1960's and early 1970's!!!!!!!!!!

"Societal fear" of Islamic terrorism is based on Americans seeing their fellow countrymen jumping from high rises to grisly deaths, and hearing calls from friends and loved ones made from planes hijacked by Islamic
fundamentlists in order to kill "infidels". That's a real fear.

The nuclear weapons I was referring to regards posts on DU that the U.S. military will use tactical nuclear weapons in Iraq. This will not happen...PERIOD.