People are always coming up with dates for the 'end of the world' through various doomsday scenarios. But define 'the end' what is that? the total destruction fo the planet and all life on it? That would actually be very difficult for man to achieve.
A nuclear war would destroy major cities and kill billions and cause major eviromental damage, it would be the end of life as we know it, BUT not the end of the world, many people would still survive, life on earth would still go on.
The only other threats can be maybe a deadly airborne virus or something from out of space.
However- there is no way to prepare for the end of the world, what you going to do exactly? live the rest of your life in a bunker with a lifes supply of tinned food?
Whats the point in that? death might actually be the better option here.
The so called 'end of the world' can happen anytime between tomorrow and a ten thousand years and beyond, I dont see why people are so keen to predict it, other than being able to say 'I told you so' if they are right (asuuming they survive - and have other survivors to say it to.)
The only way I see the Human race surving indefinatly is by locating other habitable planets in the Universe and finding a way to travel / migrate to them. without that mandkinds 'time' is most certainly limited, we havent taken care of mother earth very well and she can only support our unsustainable lives of mass reproduction, destruction, consumption, waste and polution.... for so long.
Last edited by JU_88; 12-06-11 at 07:18 AM.
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