The end is near, or is it?

Opinion

Once upon a time we laughed at people who shouted that “The End Is Near”, or marched with signs to that effect. At the very least, we'd walk across the street to keep clear of them. Today, doomsday predictions have became a valuable tool in the growing industry of social engineering. 

People get hurt when the herd stampedes

I grew up watching westerns. Many of the villains of these morality plays were cattle rustlers. Often, they would sneak up on a sleeping herd and fire their six-shooters into the air to start a stampede. Modern social engineers employ the same tactic. They issue dire warnings about the consequences of our behavior in an effort to stampede the population at large, to redirect them along politically correct paths.

Some of these rustlers of the public weal achieve fame and fortune. Sad. It only encourages others to employ fake science to scare the public. Take, for example, Al Gore. Although the man has a larger “carbon footprint” than a small city, he has won a Nobel Peace Prize and an Academy Award for his exemplary work warning us about Global Warming. Strike that: Global Climate Change. The herd bolts as he shouts from his pulpit even though he is clueless about any scientific subject and the people whose expertise he relies upon have no credentials as climatologists. Please. The man should have appeared in his movie, An Inconvenient Truth, with a black hat and a bandanna tied around the lower half of his face.

Even sadder, public wealth has been wasted financing green energy industries. Not one has produced any significant portion of the world's power requirements nor have any shown any potential for the future. However, that matters little. Solving the world's problems is not on their agenda. No, these rustlers are only interested scaring the herd to alter human behavior. As I said, social engineering. In that, they have been a success.