Comment by chicob
3 years ago
Unfortunately and thanks to climate change and sea-level rising, many real beaches could then be featured on "this beach does not exist".
3 years ago
Unfortunately and thanks to climate change and sea-level rising, many real beaches could then be featured on "this beach does not exist".
I propose a "this doomsday does not exist" corollary to this project:
- this dark age does not exist (viz. the fall of the Roman empire)
- this ice age does not exist (viz. the host of ice age scares from the late 60's to 80's)
- this apocalypse does not exist (viz. Mayan end of ages, comet scares, ...)
- this world famine does not exist (viz. Paul Ehrlich's entire oeuvre/eschatology)
- this nuclear holocaust does not exist (...yet?)
- this Siberian climate does not exist (viz. the UK going polar around 2020)
- this snow-free UK does not exist (viz. the opposite prediction of the one above, the inspiration for e.g. Marillion's "Seasons End" [1])
- these dead lakes do not exist (viz. the 'acid rain' scare in the 80's-90's)
- this end-of-oil does not exist (viz. "Peak Oil" in 2000, then 2020, then 2010)
- this technological eschaton does not exist (viz. the Y2K scare)
- this rapture does not exist (viz. the countless prophecies of rapture)
- this hockey stick does not exist (viz. most of Al Gore's infamous "An Inconvenient Truth")
In a few years time we'll be able to add 'this climate catastrophe does not exist' to this list while we'll be bombarded with dire predictions on whatever new apocalypse is awaiting us. Which, same as before, will be added to this list while an even newer scare awaits. That is, unless that nuclear holocaust prediction ends up becoming reality of course - time will tell.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYxzOIojerA