Doom Seems Overrated

I have to agree with the thesis of this article.

I now see at firsthand how I avoided hearing any good news when I was young. Where are the pressure groups that have an interest in telling the good news? They do not exist. By contrast, the behemoths of bad news, such as Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and WWF, spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year and doom is their best fund-raiser. Where is the news media's interest in checking out how pessimists' predictions panned out before? There is none. By my count, Lester Brown has now predicted a turning point in the rise of agricultural yields six times since 1974, and been wrong each time. Paul Ehrlich has been predicting mass starvation and mass cancer for 40 years. He still predicts that `the world is coming to a turning point'.

The doom industry takes in billions a year and employs 1000s of people so things are always at a turning point headed downward. They can't say that things have been solved or they would all be out of business. So Global Warming will kill millions of people even if they have to cook the books because it challenges the existence of an entire industry. When their livelihoods are threatened as well as their decades of accomplishments then a little lying and exaggeration is a small price to pay.