I liken this to the recent publication of the doom clock moving another minute toward midnight.

A person is smart, but people are stupid. I think that is an axiom we've cited here before.

You can publish anything and back it up with statistics and polls that mean nothing, but imply everything. Where a person would scrutinze such claims, people will accept it as gospel and based their actions and lifestyles accordingly.

The odds are people are going to die, regardless of whatever those in power can or will do. The ultimate result of living is dying, in two hundred years the how and when this generation perished won't mean much to those of that time, regardless of what you believe in.

I suppose ultimate survival inokes zero risk tolerance. Since that really doesn't have much bearing on the final outcome anyways, do any of us really want to live our lives to that standard?

Life requires balance Daniel-San. When I play cards, I decide what hand to put my chips behind and what hand to throw down and forget about. If I ddin't put chips behind something, then what's the point of playing the game?

The point is this: exercise due diligence, be smart about it, but don't live your life based on what you read in the papers. Take what's said with a grain of salt, and figure out for yourself what makes sense. Change is inevitable, sometimes violent. Everything worth doing has some risk in it. The outcome is always the same; sooner or later, all games come to an end.