Histrionic

 

I started this bit yesterday, started reading the news at one of my favorite "news aggregator" sites (this translates into some guy/gal somewhere who takes the time to root through the media and string together a bunch of news articles that support his worldview.).  So the "Rice Farmer" sent me to this link over at the Independent.

Todays Screed

I am always amused by the folks claiming that extinction is our fate.  Now, don't get me wrong, there is a chance that will happen, but to assign it as the only possibility is just plain silly.  To assign it a big chance is pretty silly too.  

I have a feeling that extinction is being put into play and cheapened the same way that genocide was cheapened.  Now, don't get me wrong for a minute here, I am not an any way, shape, or form a holocaust denier, but now people are trying to make every massacre committed by the other side a holocaust.  Nope, words have specific meanings.  

As folks who read here know, I think that we are heading into some pretty nasty storm times.  There are going to be a lot fewer people in a hundred years than there are now.  The industrial society that supports the teeming masses is slip sliding away and there is really no way to stop it.  

But extinction.....naw.  That just seems a bit histrionic.  Depending on the level of damage actually in place and the virulence of the methodology, the next hundred years will probably see a population loss between four and six billion souls.   So, this is not going to be fun.

Nope folks, extinction ain't gonna happen, use humans are like cockroaches and rats, exterminating the likes of us just ain't happening.