(More cynically, even if we «do nothing» about the crisis de jour and nothing happens said alarmists may have the gall to claim that by «raising awareness of the
problem» they still somehow managed to avert it - «and you can make the check out to...») Even worse, alarmists project out that
terrible things will happen if we don't take
IMMEDIATE (and highly expensive) action to avert the crisis by assuming the worst - case scenario.