Latest iteration of Chicken Little...
I wonder what it is in the human psyche that demands that some people must perennially be predicting "the end of the world as we know it" (TM).
Furthermore, if it really is the case that we're headed to this big collapse, well, might as well live it up now and buy that Hummer! No sense getting in the bread line too early.
Here's a good one from Michael Crichton's "Do Aliens Cause Global Warming?" speech:
"Let's think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the *beep* Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? "