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Apologies for my edit summary. I put it in there as a pointer but then went back and did it myself after a preview of changes. Otherwise - played with wording to make it read "nicer". Added some flesh to some common alarmism (eg, everything causes cancer! Obama / the democrats / health care will destroy the world! Etc) 203.58.120.11 ( talk) 08:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
I fail to see how an oil crash in the future is alarmism. It is pretty real.
Do some research, new finds are still been made and the recovery rate is still improving, here is one recent example for gas
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124104549891270585.html
and for oil; Electro Thermal Dynamic Stripping Oil Recovery Could Unlock 400 Billion More Barrels of Oil in Alberta at $26/Barrel
I believe that is a lot of oil, here is the source
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/04/electro-thermal-dynamic-stripping-oil.html and http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124050418449248573.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.170.172 ( talk) 20:18, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
I don't believe "that is a lot of oil". How many barrels does the world use in one day? Now, 'that' is a lot of oil. Plus, if the technology's so great and from 2006, where's the plant? Finally, what's the maximum flow rate of that operation? I doubt it can prop up production rates what often take abrupt declines. Peak oil isn't "pretty real", it's very real. It's not alarmism if it's a real risk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.252.192 ( talk) 19:56, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
It would be great to sort the list into categories like " economic," " political," " environmental", etc. The problem is that so many of the items belong in several categories ( nuclear war, for example, could be something affecting all three). What, if anything, might be done about this? Perhaps a sot of Venn diagram or the like? -- Lenoxus 15:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand Loremasters edit, which I reverted here [1]. This appears to be alinked to some fight at Transhumanism William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Alarmism – The production of needless warnings. Use of the word implies that one does not share the concerns of the person giving the warnings, and that the anticipated danger is overstated. Some warnings that have been called alarmist include:
• The threat of terrorism
• The 2002-2003 SARS incident
• The prediction of end times events from the Bible
• Mutually assured nuclear destruction causing mass extinction
• The possibility of a bird flu epidemic killing hundreds of millions
• Population explosion or Malthusian catastrophe, causing mass starvation
• The Y2K bug causing a breakdown of the world's computers and life itself
• Nuclear meltdown scenarios on a larger scale than 3 Mile Island or Chernobyl
• The possibility of an asteroid collision with the Earth, causing mass extinctions —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.69.28 ( talk) 23:14, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
The article seemed to be just an uncited laundry list so I have knocked it back to s stub, based upon a journal article which seems to make some attempt to discuss the general nature of the topic. Material of this sort is what we need most, please. Colonel Warden ( talk) 13:24, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I just saw that Alarmism links to Club Of Rome. Hey kids, that's not PC, right? Somebody might actually notice that the CoR is all about alarmism. Make it disappear, quick, quick, can't have the counterrevolutionaries take over the NPOV, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.34.195.40 ( talk) 17:24, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Just to be clear, which part of the Club of Rome's ideas are "excessive or exaggerated"? I don't think there's any thing excessive about saying exponential growth with beat finite resources in the long term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.252.192 ( talk) 19:50, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
No dissent on this for a couple of days. I'm thus restoring the CoR reference. If anyone objects, please post here. Fell Gleaming talk 14:03, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
All that's here is a definition. Try expanding more on the subject. Look a more references/sources. Melaniebruns ( talk) 17:18, 19 September 2011 (UTC)Melaniebruns
The article only provides the definition of Alarmism. This article should provide more sources and should include what symptoms Alarmism does to a person. The article needs to give a better description and explanation of what Alarmism does to a person. Kristino11 ( talk) 20:17, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
I've removed this content because it is ungrammatical and adds nothing to the article. A dictionary definition is not needed or helpful when a definition is already given (which this largely repeated). SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 07:14, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
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help)What I would like to add to this article is a little bit more in-depth knowledge about Alarmism. I have been researching a few academic sources and would like to add more to the list soon. This are academic journals and are reliable sources. Some of the things I would like to add to this article are: -Different types of Alarmism -History of Alarmism -Effects of alarmism on the body. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amccleaf17 ( talk • contribs) 18:22, February 19, 2015
Regarding your proposed sources, they would be more correctly cited as:
You may be accessing those articles through EbscoHost, but not all readers will have access to that database, so you should provide complete citation information as I've shown above.
Depending on what type of content you will be sourcing, it is not clear that your first source (alcohol in Italy) complies with Wikipedia's medical sourcing guidelines, nor is it clear what relationship that source has to the topic of Alarmism. The second source looks, on the surface, to be a good one. If you could post here more ideas of what kind of information you want to extract from the first source, more feedback can be given. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:46, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Alarmism Alarmism is the feeling of danger or threat. Alarmism was introduced into science and philosophy in the late 1960's and early 1970's. This was as a response to the social development theory. Alarmism was very common in the western countries. Some catastrophes that helped to pave the way for alarmism are, the two world wars, genocide, the disintegration of empires and social revolution. These times alternated between periods of alarm and calmness. Alarmism draws attention to the negative effects of human activity. They did not look at the positive affects and progress that was going on only the negative. A lot of the cases of alarmism during this time focused on technology and the developing of the human race at the expense of the environment. The negative effects on the environment triggered alarmism in the scientific community. Some negative effects that are concerns of the people is the depletion of resources and irreversible chemical and physical changes in the land, water, and atmosphere. This alarm was because it could cause planetary climate changes. Alarmism is triggered by catastrophes around the world or in specific countries. Alarmism was made worse by the general systematic crisis that included: population growth in third world countries, pandemic hunger and infectious diseases. Alarmism can be focused on not only environment alarmism, but it can also be seen with the increase in diseases. A case studied within the Clinton administration era showed the rise in the rate of alarmism caused by infectious diseases. The death rate had increased at a faster rate and this had caused alarm for the safety of health. Amccleaf17 ( talk) 18:56, 3 March 2015 (UTC) {{ [1]}} {{ [2]}}
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Apologies for my edit summary. I put it in there as a pointer but then went back and did it myself after a preview of changes. Otherwise - played with wording to make it read "nicer". Added some flesh to some common alarmism (eg, everything causes cancer! Obama / the democrats / health care will destroy the world! Etc) 203.58.120.11 ( talk) 08:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
I fail to see how an oil crash in the future is alarmism. It is pretty real.
Do some research, new finds are still been made and the recovery rate is still improving, here is one recent example for gas
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124104549891270585.html
and for oil; Electro Thermal Dynamic Stripping Oil Recovery Could Unlock 400 Billion More Barrels of Oil in Alberta at $26/Barrel
I believe that is a lot of oil, here is the source
http://nextbigfuture.com/2009/04/electro-thermal-dynamic-stripping-oil.html and http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124050418449248573.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.170.172 ( talk) 20:18, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
I don't believe "that is a lot of oil". How many barrels does the world use in one day? Now, 'that' is a lot of oil. Plus, if the technology's so great and from 2006, where's the plant? Finally, what's the maximum flow rate of that operation? I doubt it can prop up production rates what often take abrupt declines. Peak oil isn't "pretty real", it's very real. It's not alarmism if it's a real risk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.252.192 ( talk) 19:56, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
It would be great to sort the list into categories like " economic," " political," " environmental", etc. The problem is that so many of the items belong in several categories ( nuclear war, for example, could be something affecting all three). What, if anything, might be done about this? Perhaps a sot of Venn diagram or the like? -- Lenoxus 15:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't understand Loremasters edit, which I reverted here [1]. This appears to be alinked to some fight at Transhumanism William M. Connolley ( talk) 22:34, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Alarmism – The production of needless warnings. Use of the word implies that one does not share the concerns of the person giving the warnings, and that the anticipated danger is overstated. Some warnings that have been called alarmist include:
• The threat of terrorism
• The 2002-2003 SARS incident
• The prediction of end times events from the Bible
• Mutually assured nuclear destruction causing mass extinction
• The possibility of a bird flu epidemic killing hundreds of millions
• Population explosion or Malthusian catastrophe, causing mass starvation
• The Y2K bug causing a breakdown of the world's computers and life itself
• Nuclear meltdown scenarios on a larger scale than 3 Mile Island or Chernobyl
• The possibility of an asteroid collision with the Earth, causing mass extinctions —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.69.28 ( talk) 23:14, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
The article seemed to be just an uncited laundry list so I have knocked it back to s stub, based upon a journal article which seems to make some attempt to discuss the general nature of the topic. Material of this sort is what we need most, please. Colonel Warden ( talk) 13:24, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
I just saw that Alarmism links to Club Of Rome. Hey kids, that's not PC, right? Somebody might actually notice that the CoR is all about alarmism. Make it disappear, quick, quick, can't have the counterrevolutionaries take over the NPOV, right? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.34.195.40 ( talk) 17:24, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
Just to be clear, which part of the Club of Rome's ideas are "excessive or exaggerated"? I don't think there's any thing excessive about saying exponential growth with beat finite resources in the long term. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.6.252.192 ( talk) 19:50, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
No dissent on this for a couple of days. I'm thus restoring the CoR reference. If anyone objects, please post here. Fell Gleaming talk 14:03, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
All that's here is a definition. Try expanding more on the subject. Look a more references/sources. Melaniebruns ( talk) 17:18, 19 September 2011 (UTC)Melaniebruns
The article only provides the definition of Alarmism. This article should provide more sources and should include what symptoms Alarmism does to a person. The article needs to give a better description and explanation of what Alarmism does to a person. Kristino11 ( talk) 20:17, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
I've removed this content because it is ungrammatical and adds nothing to the article. A dictionary definition is not needed or helpful when a definition is already given (which this largely repeated). SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 07:14, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
References
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cite web}}
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help)
Bibliography of possible sources:
{{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |accessdate=
(
help){{
cite web}}
: Check date values in: |accessdate=
(
help)What I would like to add to this article is a little bit more in-depth knowledge about Alarmism. I have been researching a few academic sources and would like to add more to the list soon. This are academic journals and are reliable sources. Some of the things I would like to add to this article are: -Different types of Alarmism -History of Alarmism -Effects of alarmism on the body. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Amccleaf17 ( talk • contribs) 18:22, February 19, 2015
Regarding your proposed sources, they would be more correctly cited as:
You may be accessing those articles through EbscoHost, but not all readers will have access to that database, so you should provide complete citation information as I've shown above.
Depending on what type of content you will be sourcing, it is not clear that your first source (alcohol in Italy) complies with Wikipedia's medical sourcing guidelines, nor is it clear what relationship that source has to the topic of Alarmism. The second source looks, on the surface, to be a good one. If you could post here more ideas of what kind of information you want to extract from the first source, more feedback can be given. SandyGeorgia ( Talk) 18:46, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
Alarmism Alarmism is the feeling of danger or threat. Alarmism was introduced into science and philosophy in the late 1960's and early 1970's. This was as a response to the social development theory. Alarmism was very common in the western countries. Some catastrophes that helped to pave the way for alarmism are, the two world wars, genocide, the disintegration of empires and social revolution. These times alternated between periods of alarm and calmness. Alarmism draws attention to the negative effects of human activity. They did not look at the positive affects and progress that was going on only the negative. A lot of the cases of alarmism during this time focused on technology and the developing of the human race at the expense of the environment. The negative effects on the environment triggered alarmism in the scientific community. Some negative effects that are concerns of the people is the depletion of resources and irreversible chemical and physical changes in the land, water, and atmosphere. This alarm was because it could cause planetary climate changes. Alarmism is triggered by catastrophes around the world or in specific countries. Alarmism was made worse by the general systematic crisis that included: population growth in third world countries, pandemic hunger and infectious diseases. Alarmism can be focused on not only environment alarmism, but it can also be seen with the increase in diseases. A case studied within the Clinton administration era showed the rise in the rate of alarmism caused by infectious diseases. The death rate had increased at a faster rate and this had caused alarm for the safety of health. Amccleaf17 ( talk) 18:56, 3 March 2015 (UTC) {{ [1]}} {{ [2]}}
References
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cite journal}}
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requires |url=
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help); Check |doi=
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help); Check date values in: |date=
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help)
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: Check |doi=
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help)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Amccleaf17 ( talk • contribs) 5:35, March 3, 2015