We lived in Sedona, Arizona, during the millennium, when the world was supposed to end at midnight.

Not only did all the so-called experts believe that computers were supposed to fail simultaneously due to Y2K, but living in Sedona, it was widely believed that aliens would rise from Bell Rock and conquer us all.

Many even had secret rituals and potions to combat this and some had gadgets that allowed us to communicate with aliens and thus achieve our salvation and hope of eternal life.

I believe that there is life on other planets and we are being visited, however, when we make physical contact, we will not need any device to communicate with them.

Obviously, it didn’t happen either and we are still here, living happily on planet earth.

These manufactured crises appear so often that I started calling them the crisis of the week and thought I’d start a club so we could all stay informed of our impending current event of doom and gloom.

Global warming is the current crisis that does not seem to want to go away.

Every day we hear how much the oceans are rising, how polar bears are starving to death, and various other disasters looming. Neither of which is true.

People talk about how Miami is underwater and how the souls of Miami are continually building the sidewalks so people can navigate the rising waters. I live six miles from the Gulf of Mexico and have been to Miami and Fort Lauderdale countless times.

I can tell you first hand that the sea level is not rising. They are at the same level as forty years ago when I first visited the ocean.

Someone once told me that Miami was half underwater, I replied that it was so bad that the last time I went to Miami International Airport I had to park on I-75 and I-595 and take a ski boat to the airport, and the boy believed me.

There are even people here in Sarasota, some of them are elected officials in state and local government who are continually harping on the issue of global warming and sea level rise, do you ever go to the beach?

It is true that the climate is changing, the climate is always changing and has been doing so for at least 4.6 billion years.

This planet has existed for eons, what makes you believe that everything will come to an end in twelve years?

When you fly over the earth at thirty thousand feet, one begins to realize how wonderful and huge our planet is, and how pure the environment remains.

Of course there are local problems, always have been and always will be, but overall the environment is in better shape now than it was sixty years ago, in any case, wildlife is returning where it hasn’t been seen for years, Smog levels are still reduced, at least in first world countries.

If you have a need to clean up the environment, try visiting China, India, or some third world country where it is an issue.

It has been reported that there is a huge floating garbage island in the Pacific Ocean, this is not true.

There are areas of floating plastic but the particles are very small less than fivemm and can’t be detected from space and even ships pass over them without even knowing there is plastic there this shouldn’t be but to say there is hundreds. of acres of floating plastic and trash is about as far from the truth as you can get.

Of course we have environmental problems, we always have and always will, even the American Indians had problems, they farmed an area and when the land ran out, it couldn’t be farmed, and all the fish and animals had been hunted and killed. , they moved to another area to do the same thing again.

We need to solve problems as they arise, but planet Earth is a wonderful planet and is capable of healing itself if we just cooperate a little, we don’t need to go back to a 7th century existence to do that.

We need to remember that politicians and the media are just creating hysteria to pander to votes and ratings. We just need to relax, the world won’t end anytime soon.

All it takes is a bit of common sense conservatism.

Just start doing what makes sense and stop running around screaming that the sky is falling.

That only makes the problem worse.