The AGGGH WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! award goes to

BBC radio 4 lecture: "
Jeffrey Sachs argues that the world faces challenges on an unprecedented scale - global warming, terrorism, poverty, disease and bad governance.

Right. Poverty is at an all millenum low. Global warming after the famine and plagues caused by the medieval little ice age seems like a good idea. Terrorism? Even if the a...h... bomb London, we probably won't have the nuclear winter that the naysayers in the 1950s and `1960's predicted. And plague? You mean worse than smallpox that decimated 90 percent of Amerindians, the black plague that decimated 50% of europe, the middle East and China, or even the Spanish Flu which killed 40 million people?

We used to hear sermons that God would smite us for our immorality. Now we hear sermons that Gaia will smite us for our immorality.
The difference is that the priests didn't want to start a new world order to force it down our throats.