In the essay “Let’s Stop Scaring Ourselves” by Michael Chrichton, the author says that as he turns 62 he looks back at all the bit worldwide “scares”. He starts off with the whole global cooling and global warming. How it all started in 1945 when the glaciers were growing, then in 1975 Newsweek reported that in the 21st century the temperature would rise by 30 degrees. However in 1995 the UN estimated a 4 degree rise in the next 100 years. He then goes on to talk about how the world feared that we would be overpopulated by 2030, however no we are at 6 billion and on a steady decrease. Then commented on how we believed we were running out of natural resources of every kind and that he machines are going to take over the world. He wraps it up with that the concern of all these things was pointless. Worrying over these things was dumb and we should just try to live our lives. I feel that all these “worldwide disasters” were pointless to freak out over. The global warming and cooling is all part of the world’s cycle, if an ice age happens, I’m sure we’ll be able to survive it. The only reason we feared the overpopulation of the world was because of China and India. I have honestly never heard of running out of resources. I have hoped by this time we as a world have watched plenty of sic-fi movies with killer robots, that we would always have a failsafe program built into the robots software so we could stop any robot uprising. All worldwide fears were just a bunch of people overreacting and not being calm about anything. By this point it is obvious that I agree with the author. They may have seemed like a huge deal at the time, however in retrospect the issues were simple things that eventually blew over. I feel that everyone just needs to relax and take all these problems with a grain of salt.