re: #361 Rightwingconspirator

With all due respect to the science, “Billions will die” has been heard far too many times from crackpots or long odds disaster scenarios like an asteroid strike. Sorry that’s the reality in billions of minds. As a guy with a couple decades in marketing your final point is the most persuasive for most people. As an LA native, I can attest to the vastly improved quality of life in the post catalytic converter era, and with natural gas buses.

I understand entirely that crackpots cry wolf.

I ask you to consider:

1. Sometimes there is really a wolf.

2. The people crying wolf are legitimate people and not crackpots. In fact they are the same community you trust to come up with all of your technology and eveything that makes your modern world modern. They got things like the atom and the big bang and all that right, so they should be much more trustworthy than just some crackpot.

3. There is evidence of wolves all around you. You hear them howling at night. You see wolf droppings outside the village. You have sheep gone missing.

So perhaps, just maybe, rather than worrying about what people think of each other and the ones who tell you there is a wolf, you should worry about how to deal with wolves.