I can think of several prominent predictions in the present of similar magnitude.
Every election is proclaimed as the death of American democracy.
Race war precipitated by Whites becoming a racial minority.
The recognition of “same-sex marriages” was to harbinger a collapse of all public morality.
Restrictions on abortion access reducing women to sex-slaves, à la The Handmaid’s Tale.
I think you’re understating the apocalypticism of climate-change activism.
Smartphones/social media/pornography corrupting the youth, leading to … okay, admittedly this one’s vaguer, but the consequences, whatever they might be, are still expected to be dire.
If overpopulation has ceased to be a major concern, that’s a very recent development.
Similarly, running out of oil was forecast to return technology to horse-drawn carriages and beeswax candles. They’ve definitely stopped saying this, but I heard it in the ’00s.
The difference you’re talking about might be simply due to you discounting these as insane (or maybe just disingenuous) while hailing analogous predictions in the past as wise/prescient.
I can think of several prominent predictions in the present of similar magnitude.
Every election is proclaimed as the death of American democracy.
Race war precipitated by Whites becoming a racial minority.
The recognition of “same-sex marriages” was to harbinger a collapse of all public morality.
Restrictions on abortion access reducing women to sex-slaves, à la The Handmaid’s Tale.
I think you’re understating the apocalypticism of climate-change activism.
Smartphones/social media/pornography corrupting the youth, leading to … okay, admittedly this one’s vaguer, but the consequences, whatever they might be, are still expected to be dire.
If overpopulation has ceased to be a major concern, that’s a very recent development.
Similarly, running out of oil was forecast to return technology to horse-drawn carriages and beeswax candles. They’ve definitely stopped saying this, but I heard it in the ’00s.
The difference you’re talking about might be simply due to you discounting these as insane (or maybe just disingenuous) while hailing analogous predictions in the past as wise/prescient.