- Alarmism
Alarmism is the production of needless warnings.
The following lists some areas where warnings have been called alarmist. Inclusion in the list does not imply that the warnings are needless, only that some people have called them needless:
* Issuing early warnings on the ideas that will be the most destructive in the current century.cite paper| author = Foreign Policy Special Reports contributors| title = The World's Most Dangerous Ideas| date = 2004 | url = http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=2696| accessdate=2007-11-29]
* The threat ofterrorism , nuclear or biochemical attack, etc.
* Consumption ofjunk food andfood s high insodium ,fat ,oil ,sugar ,cholesterol , orcalorie s as being deadly.
* The possibility of anoil crash in the near future.
* The possibility of aneconomic depression or Stock Market crash (similar to theWall Street Crash of 1929 or the "Black Monday" in 1987 Stock Market crashes).
* The economic damage that was supposed to occur because of theMontreal Protocol onozone depletion .
* The potential effects ofglobal warming , and other environmental dangers.
* The economic damage that may result due to cuttinggreenhouse gas emissions.
*The population bomb, orMalthusian catastrophe , to cause mass starvation.
* The prediction ofend times events from the Bible.
* The erosion ofcivil liberties .
* The tendency toward more economic and politicalglobalism and away fromnationalism .
* ThatIraq hadweapons of mass destruction , this preceded theIraq War .
* There are 25000 incidents ofbride burning in India every year.
* The 2002-2003SARS incident
*Possibility of a bird fluepidemic , killing hundreds of millions.
*Mutual assured destruction was the possibility of a full-scale nuclear war, causing mass extinction. TheDoomsday Clock uses a symbolic clock to imply that civilization is on the verge of self-destruction.
* The severity of the Three Mile Island incident or theChernobyl disaster and possibilities of incidents of greater magnitude.
* The possibility of animpact event onEarth , causing an extinction event.
*Y2K bug causing breakdown of the world's computer systems.
*Carcinogenity ofelectromagnetic radiation from power lines ormicrowave oven s.
*Backmasking
* TheClash of Civilizations
*Dysgenics will bring about the downfall of the human species.ee also
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Sociology of disaster
*Moral panic
*Culture of fear
*Scaremongering
* "State of Fear "
*Club of Rome References
External links
* [http://www.panicwatch.org Panic Watch] - Lists and blogs concerning media panic, health scares, paranoia, and conspiracy theories
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