Alarmism is the production of needless warnings. Naturally, use of the word implies that one does not share the concerns of the person giving the warnings, and that the danger is overstated.

Some areas where warnings have been called alarmist include:

• The threat of terrorism, nuclear or biochemical attack, etc.
• The possibility of an oil crash in the near future.
• The prediction of end times events from the Bible
• The alleged erosion of civil liberties.
• The possibility of global warming, and other environmental dangers.
• The economic damage that was supposed to occur because of the Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion.
• The 2002-2003 SARS incident (Though a large number of people did die, many claimed that SARS would become a global catastrophe, claiming the lives of tens of millions).
• Possibility of a bird flu epidemic, killing hundreds of millions.
• Mutual assured destruction was the possibility of a full-scale nuclear war, causing mass extinction.
• Nuclear meltdown scenarios
• The population bomb, or Malthusian catastrophe, to cause mass starvation
• The possibility of an asteroid collision with the Earth, causing mass extinctions.
• Y2K bug causing breakdown of the world's computer systems.
• Transhumanism as the world's most dangerous idea.

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