{"id":24850,"date":"2019-09-28T11:35:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-28T01:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24850"},"modified":"2024-10-10T04:18:58","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T17:18:58","slug":"media-frenzies-sell-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24850","title":{"rendered":"Media Frenzies Sell Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>If you look back over the headlines for the last 60 years you can see that an emergency is being beaten to death in order to keep us in an electrified state of panic, needing to run out and buy a newspaper or tune in or log on to stay up to date on the latest panic. This is not how life should be lived. We need to do our best to reassure our young folk that this is just the players at work and we don&#8217;t have to join that game. There are better games to play!<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>1966: Oil Gone in Ten Years<br \/>1967: Dire Famine Forecast By 1975<br \/>1968: Overpopulation Will Spread Worldwide<br \/>1969: Everyone Will Disappear In a Cloud Of Blue Steam By 1989 (1969)<br \/>1970: World Will Use Up All its Natural Resources<br \/>1970: Urban Citizens Will Require Gas Masks by 1985<br \/>1970: Nitrogen buildup Will Make All Land Unusable<br \/>1970: Decaying Pollution Will Kill all the Fish<br \/>1970s: Killer Bees!<br \/>1970: Ice Age By 2000<br \/>1970: America Subject to Water Rationing By 1974 and Food Rationing By 1980<br \/>1971: New Ice Age Coming By 2020 or 2030<br \/>1972: New Ice Age By 2070<br \/>1972: Oil Depleted in 20 Years<br \/>1974: Space Satellites Show New Ice Age Coming Fast<br \/>1974: Another Ice Age?<br \/>1974: Ozone Depletion a \u2018Great Peril to Life&#8217;<br \/>1976: Scientific Consensus Planet Cooling, Famines imminent<br \/>1977: Department of Energy Says Oil will Peak in 90s<br \/>1978: No End in Sight to 30-Year Cooling Trend<br \/>1980: Acid Rain Kills Life In Lakes<br \/>1980: Peak Oil In 2000<br \/>1988: Regional Droughts (that never happened) in 1990s<br \/>1988: Temperatures in DC Will Hit Record Highs<br \/>1988: Maldive Islands will Be Underwater by 2018 (they\u2019re not)<br \/>1989: Rising Sea Levels will Obliterate Nations if Nothing Done by 2000<br \/>1989: New York City\u2019s West Side Highway Underwater by 2019 (it\u2019s not)<br \/>1996: Peak Oil in 2020<br \/>2000: Children Won\u2019t Know what Snow Is<br \/>2002: Famine In 10 Years If We Don\u2019t Give Up Eating Fish, Meat, and Dairy<br \/>2002: Peak Oil in 2010<br \/>2004: Britain will Be Siberia by 2024<br \/>2005: Manhattan Underwater by 2015<br \/>2006: Super Hurricanes!<br \/>2008: Arctic will Be Ice Free by 2018<br \/>2008: Climate Genius Al Gore Predicts Ice-Free Arctic by 2013<br \/>2009: Climate Genius Prince Charles Says we Have 96 Months to Save World<br \/>2009: UK Prime Minister Says 50 Days to \u2018Save The Planet From Catastrophe\u2019<br \/>2009: Climate Genius Al Gore Moves 2013 Prediction of Ice-Free Arctic to 2014<br \/>2013: Arctic Ice-Free by 2015<br \/>2014: Only 500 Days Before \u2018Climate Chaos&#8217;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look back over the headlines for the last 60 years you can see that an emergency is being beaten to death in order to keep us in an electrified state of panic, needing to run out and buy a newspaper or tune in or log on to stay up to date on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=24850\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Media Frenzies Sell Papers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57426,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24850\/revisions\/57426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}