The year is 2015, and CBS is warning America that the threat of climate change is becoming so severe that Hollywood could be underwater by 2025.
I mean... they were kind of right, just not in the way they anticipated.
CBS gave various coastal cities a deadline before global warming sunk their cities into the sea:
Research suggests that at the current pace, carbon emissions could increase the sea level at least 14 feet by the year 2100. That puts 1,800 municipalities along the coast in danger, including 21 cities with populations of more than 100,000 residents.
Strauss' data has calculated the "lock-in date" for these cities, or the year at which carbon emission levels have essentially sealed a city's fate and would put them under water.
Hollywood has a lock-in date of 2025. New York City is at 2095.
The solution? "Aggressive carbon cuts" and a reduction in energy consumption.
Fast-forward to 2025 and sadly, Hollywood is still pretty dry when it comes to both seawater and talent. Not that this surprises anyone. Climate alarmists have been making these predictions for years, and not a one has come true. For all intents and purposes, climate alarmists are the people standing on the street corner declaring the end is nigh.
It'd been happening for so long that South Park even made fun of alarmists in their episode "Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow" in 2005. Just to drive the point home that these people were ridiculous, Matt Stone and Trey Parker clowned on Al Gore a year later with "ManBearPig."
The constant lack of doom has caused many to shrug off the end-of-times talk, and rightfully so. As my colleague Katie Jerkovich posted, CNN reported that only 17 percent of people think climate change is actually impactful.
CNN: “Climate activists have not successfully made the case to the American people.”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) July 10, 2025
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The left tends to goof in this regard in a big way. When you can't sell an idea or narrative on its own merit, you have to resort to dramatics. It's hard to get people to give up their own power and accept less comfortable lives unless you dress it in "our hubris and lack of care will kill us all."
Funny enough, it hasn't, because it's not hubris or lack of care that we're suffering from.
But this goes down the line for many subjects.
For a long time, we were told that transgender people were being murdered in the streets, hunted for sport, and denied human rights. LGBT activists stood in the light of day and told us that "trans kids need to be protected." Then we watched as they put children in front of drag queens who did explicit dances for, stripped in front of, and included children in their perversion.
But transgender people aren't under threat, unless they count from themselves. Transgender people aren't being hunted in the streets, and they've proven to actually be the violent ones.
READ: Transgender People Are Not Under Threat and Their Movement Is the Height of Narcissism
We were told that Trump's election would mean women had their rights taken away.
They haven't.
We were told COVID-19 would kill us all if we didn't take a vaccine.
We didn't.
We were told black people would be put "back in chains" if Republicans obtained power.
They're very much free.
In every single one of these instances, people are waking up to the reality that the world isn't as hateful and crumbling as the left wishes it was, and every single time we learn the truth, the left loses that much more credibility.
There comes a point where your dramatics catch up with you. Like the boy who cried wolf, or the girl who consistently badmouths her peers, eventually you're found out to be the problem, not everyone else.
And that kind of gets down to a central theme from the left.
You're the problem, and they're the solution... or that's what they want you to believe. It's this societal gaslighting of trying to make you believe that without them, things will spin out of control because you're immoral, and they're the picture of kindness and wisdom.
They certainly don't think very highly of you, but they sure do think highly of themselves. So much so that they're willing to lie to you through hysterics to make you act in a way that gives them power over you.
But you can only declare the sky is falling so much before people look at you and say, "cool."
