With comments like “Time is running out on us as a species” and we have “five minutes before midnight,” Tim Stevenson reminds me of that pastor who insisted the world was going to end in May of 2012 because of an interpretation of the Mayan calendar and even posted billboards about it.
When that date came and went, the pastor changed it to Dec 21, 2012. We all woke up on Dec 22, 2012, and he was totally discredited.
In much the same way, Stevenson is trying to use fear to get people to join in his beliefs, much as some religious zealots do to convince you to follow their beliefs. We have been told for years that everything we do - turning on a light switch, driving a car, buying food at a store, and more - are all killing us, but it has yet to happen.
I am a little surprised climate alarmists don't focus their efforts to help promote the idea of population control: reduce the population explosion, reduce future demand on resources.
I also wonder why they never champion shaming celebrities - including the greatest hypocrite, the five-home-owning, private-jet-flying Al Gore - into living lives of much less excess.
Trying to scare the average American has not worked so far, and there are better ways to really try to help the environment. Too bad they cannot see it.