And that’s the problem, boxtops.
For as long as I can remember almost annually a new threat to humanity is announced, the experts creep out of the cellars they inhabit and produce all manner of forecasts which exaggerate the threat many fold. Very often their inane rantings are harmless but just occasionally their expert views (which are, for some strange reason, always taken at face value and without question by politicians) cost the country (i.e. the taxpayer) dearly.
Last year’s swine flu panic cost millions of pounds in useless and unwanted vaccine. Meanwhile let’s not forget the ongoing greatest scandal of all, that of so-called “Climate Change” (aka “Global Warming”). This episode in global scaremongering will cost the country billions annually for years to come, to address a problem which is far from certain to exist, and in any case will not be cured by building useless windmills or by companies buying and selling “carbon credits” to each other.