Against the Doomsayers

People have been predicting calamities for countless generations, but the sky stubbornly refuses to fall. Reject the politics of doom.
I am always fascinated at how many people seem to cultivate predictions of disaster. One reason I find it so interesting is that I don’t habitually expect the end of America, or civilization, or life as we know it. I don’t expect that things will get dramatically worse at all. I expect that they will probably continue more or less as they have been. Uniformitarianism isn’t always right, but it’s a good first guess, and a hard presumption to overcome. Or at least it should be.  Read more