Random Negative Thinking

Why is it...

... that if the US is the world's leading polluter and consumer of natural resources, creator of the ozone hole and cause of the ice caps melting, we're all more likely to die from the flu, which comes via rural Asia?

Pandemics and pestilence should be our greater fear. I'd rather deal with an impending ice age than watch my body suffer the agony of, say, the Ebola viruses, which could come to us having made the jump from monkeys to humans in Zaire the Ivory Coast, and the Congo, the same way AIDS did.

What an exploding population of illegal immigrants and warehouses haven't ruined here in Redlands, the last surviving orange trees may now die from a South American blight that is sweeping north, killing citrus as it advances.

Then there's the asteroid coming in 2029. It's supposed to miss us by just 21,547 miles. That's closer than our geosynchronous satellites at 22,300. Then again, it might not. Want to be scared? Google "Asteroid close approach" and look at all those critters out there swarming down on us over the next few years. Enjoy.