The Biggest Scare story of your lifetime

[oldbanger]

Gargamel said:

I'm old enough to remember the stories in the mid seventies that a mini ice age was due, and that we should be preparing for Glaciers to cover the land from Scotland to Derby !

Yup, we were all going to freeze in our beds!

[Trommel]

Simpo Two said:

We have to destroy all our pigs and cattle every few years to please the French (who simply ignore their own diseases)

Not just France, the whole of Europe. Does anyone really think that BSE only ever happened in the UK?

[oldbanger]

Gargamel said:

Or Acid Rain - the "dieback effect" on alpine snow slopes was supposed to render much of the alps a snow bowl and destroy all london buildings within a decade ?

What happened to Acid Rain ?

Acid rain still exists, it's a localised problem upwind of heavy industrial areas buring fossil fuels - mostly Asia these days. However, it's just not fashionable any more - there's a poor living to be had from solvable problems.

Edited by oldbanger on Tuesday 31st March 13:23

[andy400]

CommanderJameson said:

Watching Threads as an 11-year-old had me pretty bloody scared.

I was about ten I think, when I saw 'War Games' (the b&w docu-drama, bot the Broderick film), 'Threads' and then read 'Children of the Dust'. At a similar time a warning siren for the village was erected at my primary school.

I was st-scared for a looong time......

[mattviatura]

Yertis said:

Gargamel said:

I'm old enough to remember the stories in the mid seventies that a mini ice age was due, and that we should be preparing for Glaciers to cover the land from Scotland to Derby !

I remember that not long after the Ice Age thing some long haired scientists on "Nationwide" (presented by Mike Barratt) warned us about a "greenhouse effect" causede by pollution, 1976 was just the beginning and we would all be living in a desert by the year 2000. Whatever happened to that?

Nationwide. I can just remember a feature about aliens and I remember being scared witless. Probably, looking back, it would have been a tie in with the release of Close Encounters or something but you don't realise that when you are six.