For example, some scientists speculate the winter solstice will mark will mark the arrival of the next solar maximum , sevenre solar flares could potentially disrupt, there is a normal period of height sen. solar cycle in the eleven year solar cycle of the sunspots, and according to some, due to increased gravitational forces from planetary alignment the electrical grid, regional weather patterns, and knock out communication systems and GPS satellites.
In the past few years, various other prophecies of doom All of them have argued that their pet calamity is going to be the knock-out punch to bring They are the most serious course correction. There is a serious course correction.
According to the most vocal doomsayers, here is a brief summary of the major convergent fiascos that potentially can destroy the human race if we do not change our wicked ways:
- Global Financial Crisis - this will lead to an inevitable worldwide economic meltdown that will disrupt global trade and create mass unemployment and food shortages.
- Increased Unemployment - this will lead to shortages in tax revenues, disruptions government payments on debts, resulting in mass foreclosures and bankruptcies.
- Increased Government Spending - When debts are being due, the US government will initially become insolvent, even though though functionally has been for years.
- Clean Water Scarcity - The US is quickly running out of clean water. Many of the aquifers created by glaciations are being replicated by nature. Soon rationing may be imposed to supply the growing demand from the increasing population.
- Overpopulation When fossil fuels became depleted to the point of scarcity, the existing food production and distribution method will collapse, resulting in mass global starvation.
- Peak Oil - the world reached the point of extracting from the oil consumption in the future. it completely runs out around 2025. Gas rationing may have to be implemented, and public transportation will be regulated and limited.
- Isolated Nuclear Events - as shortages arise in food and continue to increase, with a strong likelihood of global thermonuclear war. Stockpiles of plutonium fuel exist and it is just a matter of time before some terrorist group cobbles together a nuclear device to hold world governments host, or remove a major city from the map. The threat of nuclear radiation contamination may also come from destruction to power plants from earthquakes or meltdowns, such as occurred in Chernobyl and Japan.
- Computerized Global Nuclear War - conflicts in the Middle East could escalate into full-scale nuclear warfare between Iran and Israel, or elsewhere in the world rival nuclear powers such as India and Pakistan, or the US with North Korea; should the technology be developed, and the leadership remain unstable. The world could survive one or two isolated nuclear events if it were just limited to that level, however, the fallout and nuclear winter which could follow a full-scale nuclear war that could potentially destroy all plant and animal life on the earth .
- Bioterrorism - involves the intentional release or distribution of toxic biological agents such as bacteria, viruses, and toxins, which may be in a naturally occurring or human-modified form; intended to cause sickness and death to humans, plants, and animals. Viruses such as The use function of the harm to humans, can not be used to target, the food chain and disrupt the economy, cause widespread fear and panic, and destabilize the normal function of business and society. For example, the highly toxic pathogen, the foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) virus, which caused the 2001 and 2007 FMD outbreaks in the UK, had little chance of infecting humans, yet it caused widespread economic damage and overwhelming public concern.
- Mass Famine - Because it is consumed, the transportation of food and goods depleted reserves of fossil fuels. This, coupled with increasing scarcity of fresh water for agriculture, may result in limited food production and starvation for millions depending on roof tops, balcony decks, vacant lots, or in dedicated community gardens.
- Climate Change and Global Warming - Rising Gulf Streams is accelerating polar ice cap melting, which is raising water levels along with coastal properties and creating more frequent, and larger hurricanes, and more intense storms. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports that climate disasters are increasing, and roughly 70% are now climate related, up from 50% only two decades ago. Destruction to human populations coming from intense tropical storms, heavy rains, hurricanes, tsunamis, flooding, droughts, rising sea levels, and the general vulnerability of local communities who are not equipped, or prepared, to handle such catastrophic emergencies.
- Global Pandemic - Any pathogen that kills its host will will slowly allow carriers more time to spread thus spreading it around the world in only a matter of hours on airline passengers.
- Ecological Disaster - transferred by more than 1,300 scientists worldwide. A global ecological disaster, such such collaboration of ecosystem services, which are basically defined by the UN in 2005 in a four-year study called the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA); Most of these scenarios involve things like the disruption of the food chain due to scarcity of fresh water, overfishing, massive deforestation, as a world crop failure, could have been induced by existing trends in overpopulation, economic failure, and non-sustainable agriculture. desertification, oil spills and water pollution episodes, pollinator declination, decomposition of wastes, pests and diseases extending beyond historical boundaries, and the Holocene Extinction Event, Currently there are up to 140,000 species of living organizations going extinct per year on earth. The period from the earth on the emergence of humans has shown an ongoing reduction in biodiversity and an accompaniment loss of genetic diversity. in reduction primarily by human impacts, and especially by habitat destruction, especially in the Amazon rain forest.
- Natural Disasters - Any real threat that will terminate intelligent life on Earth will likely be a man-made event. If several are made, Earthquakes or volcanoes erupt once around the Pacific Rim of Fire, then the loss of human life from the ensuing tsunamis may pose a significant tragedy to coastal populations, but not an extinction event. Civilization would continue.
- Biotechnology - This new biotechnology has an intense range of applications in medicine, may threats to civilization may come from humanity. electronics, biomaterials, and energy production. These new technologies could lead to gray goo , in which self-replicating, out-of-control robots consume all matter on earth while duplicating themselves, either arbitrarily or accidently. This hypothetical scenario is known as ecophagy ("eating the environment").
- Artificial Intelligence - Some future opponents may lie in the unforeseen consequences of technology. This has been called "the Singularity", and it may prove to be quite dangerous for humans if machines ever develop a high degree of intelligence and decide they no longer need mannish to service their needs.
Doomsayers and whistle-blowers, despite quite annoying, serve an important function in our society to raise awareness about potential wrong-doing or danger, and to call attention to serious things that need to be changed in our society for the common good. Consciousness is Al Gore, for example, certainly performed a valuable contribution to the world in his attempt to raise public awareness about climate change and global warming just a few years ago, resulting not so much in stimulating corrective action, as seeding a great debate in the scientific community as to whether it really exists or not.
I would not pull the kids out of school and move out to grandpa 's farm just quite yet. If you & # 39; re dividing to a lot of negative television programming about doomsday scenarios, then simply do not watch it. Doomsday Preppers and Survivalist People have enough to worry about any way without having to deal with the end of the world in addition to every other stress factor in life.
Amid all this clamor and furor, the fear and anxiety, there are several interpretations of the transition The Mayan Calendar, for example, will mark the end of one Long Count and the beginning of another; and time will keep keep pressing. Both the Mayans and With resistance or acceptance. With the future ahead; with resistance to acceptance.
Scholars of numerous disciples, including astronomers, have dismissed the idea of a final cataclysmic event, saying that such Many professional Mayan schools are also coming forward to set the record straight. They are the predictions of impending Doom are not valid, nor found in any of the classic Mayan books, and that the idea that the Long Count Calendar will end on the winter solstice misrepresents Mayan history and culture. What doomsayers fail to mention is that the next Long Count period we begin on December 22, 2012 and continue for another 5, 125 years.
Man New seeing transition time as nothing more than a grand New Year 's party; something very positive , and more in the spiritual plane than in the physical realm. in theed, be physical and social change that may converge and will have be managed; but the end of the world is not in the crystal ball just quite yet. There is always hope.
What will end of the notification that races of man, divided into autonomous, independent countries, can not longer and the world ___ ___ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ There is not, and should not be, such a large disparity between The rich and poor; s. Perhaps the awakening will be the realization that we are all all, this and all together. win, or no one wins. Mankind is at a crossroads, not the end of the road.
According to Wikipedia, the Greek translation of the word Apocalypse "An apocalypse is a disclosure of something hidden from the majority of manankind in an era dominated by falsehood and misconception, ie the veil to be lifted."
