hy·per·bo·le  hīˈpərbəlē/  Defined as: "exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.  synonyms:	exaggeration, overstatement, magnification, embellishment, excess, overkill, rhetoric."

fundamentally transform? crush families? devastate the populace? devasting burden?

When I see an opinion laced with hyperboles, I cringe.  There are few facts; just a lot of frightful scenarios for the future (few, if any, come true, of course).  It must be election season.  Every cycle the candidates / avid supporters scream for "change" (or, in this case, "no change") using the-sky-is-falling scare tactics.

The problem with these "facts" is that they are just projections, and we know what that means -- few, if any, actually come true.   There are grains of truth in what Ms. Kearon says, of course.  Number facts are indisputable.  It's the projections that most likely are not.

Reminder to catastrophists: the louder you scream, the less likely we "uninformed" voters will listen.