Note: It is not my intent in this diary to be alarmist. Being an alarmist and acknowledging conditions that are alarming are quite different things.
In a recent diary I posited that the human race could become extinct within a hundred years or less. Predictably a number of readers rejected that notion in what I would characterize as knee-jerk reactions. None of them offered any argument beyond no. Apparently they just didn't like the idea. No matter that it came from a world renowned scientist. That it came from a prominent scientist doesn't make it irrefutably true but it's a much better argument than 'umm no' or 'my ass.' It can be very difficult to get people to think outside of the ruts they've grown accustomed to, and the similarities between humans and ostriches have been often noted.
continued at Daily Kos....
