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It was on the cover of the New Scientist 14 years ago! https://www.newscientist.com/issue/2378%20/ https://www.newscientist.com/issue/2378%20/

ethagknight 10y ago
They said it 'could be gone within 10 years' 14 years ago, and (I'm not an economist, I could be thinking of this wrong) yet bananas are cheaper than ever before when accounting for inflation. Not only that, the relative price of bananas have held steady for 5 yrs now. These sorts of articles should include a subtitle stating "... if nothing else is allowed to adapt or react except for the threat mentioned in the article" http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=bananas&months=240 http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=bananas&mon...
- soperj 10y ago
  Pretty sure Sea Ice is the same, it was supposed to be gone a long time ago (at least during the summer months). If you say anything about it though people collectively lose their shit.
  - jes5199 10y ago
    well, sea ice is measurably smaller: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iqr_timeseries.png https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iq...
    - soperj 10y ago
      Not saying it isn't. Just that it was supposed to be gone, and it's still closer to the levels in the late 70s than it is to gone even at it's lowest.
- thaumasiotes 10y ago
  Frankly, I think it's a good thing if an article saying "X is doomed within ten years" keeps resurfacing year after year, long after its own deadline has passed. Maybe people will notice that that sort of reporting tends to be nonsense.
  - angry_octet 10y ago
    It is weak thinking to state that rare high risk events that haven't occurred no longer require risk mitigation.
    - thaumasiotes 10y ago
      You may have drawn a different lesson from "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" than everybody else.
      - angry_octet 10y ago
        It is quite strange that you are comparing a biosecurity threat to a fairy tale. There is actual scientific evidence of a pathogen that eliminated a banana type and caused massive economic loss, and you pretend that there isn't. We have biosecurity alerts regularly and some times quarantine procedures fail, e.g. http://www.outbreak.gov.au/current-responses-to-outbreaks/white-spot-disease http://www.outbreak.gov.au/current-responses-to-outbreaks/wh.... It is the same sort of self serving delusion that leads to climate change denialism.
s0rce 10y ago
I remember getting that issue years ago, it seemed like over-hyped fear mongering then just as much does today.

ethagknight 10y ago

They said it 'could be gone within 10 years' 14 years ago, and (I'm not an economist, I could be thinking of this wrong) yet bananas are cheaper than ever before when accounting for inflation. Not only that, the relative price of bananas have held steady for 5 yrs now. These sorts of articles should include a subtitle stating "... if nothing else is allowed to adapt or react except for the threat mentioned in the article" http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=bananas&months=240 http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=bananas&mon...

soperj 10y ago
Pretty sure Sea Ice is the same, it was supposed to be gone a long time ago (at least during the summer months). If you say anything about it though people collectively lose their shit.
- jes5199 10y ago
  well, sea ice is measurably smaller: https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iqr_timeseries.png https://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/N_iq...
  - soperj 10y ago
    Not saying it isn't. Just that it was supposed to be gone, and it's still closer to the levels in the late 70s than it is to gone even at it's lowest.
thaumasiotes 10y ago
Frankly, I think it's a good thing if an article saying "X is doomed within ten years" keeps resurfacing year after year, long after its own deadline has passed. Maybe people will notice that that sort of reporting tends to be nonsense.
- angry_octet 10y ago
  It is weak thinking to state that rare high risk events that haven't occurred no longer require risk mitigation.
  - thaumasiotes 10y ago
    You may have drawn a different lesson from "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" than everybody else.
    - angry_octet 10y ago
      It is quite strange that you are comparing a biosecurity threat to a fairy tale. There is actual scientific evidence of a pathogen that eliminated a banana type and caused massive economic loss, and you pretend that there isn't. We have biosecurity alerts regularly and some times quarantine procedures fail, e.g. http://www.outbreak.gov.au/current-responses-to-outbreaks/white-spot-disease http://www.outbreak.gov.au/current-responses-to-outbreaks/wh.... It is the same sort of self serving delusion that leads to climate change denialism.

s0rce 10y ago

I remember getting that issue years ago, it seemed like over-hyped fear mongering then just as much does today.