Globalization or the end of the world?
Something I've been thinking about lately:
It seems there's been an outrageous amount of natural distasters in the last few years. Hurricanes out of control, tsunamis, mudslides, earthquakes....it goes on and on and on. Here are my questions:
Is the end of the world coming? OR Is this the result of global warming? OR Is it just that the world is becoming smaller and we are now aware of the distasters that happen across the globe?
I mean, I'm sure there have been earthquakes in remote places that most Americans don't know exist (like Kashmir) many times in history. Maybe the difference now is that 70% of Americans watch 2-6 hours of tv per day and some of that has to include news coverage!
I don't know...just wondering what's going on.
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I don't know if this applies to earthquakes (so I'll have to argue globalization there) but I know hurricanes run in cycles. Wait a few years and they'll be down again...
I was wondering this same thing myself this morning. I usually feel a little embarassed at considering anything the end of the world because there have been so many other events in history (black plague, world wars 1 and 2) that seemed so much more important at the time, and yet here we are, still living on the same planet. I don't think it's global warming because I'm not a fringe scientist from France or an eco-nut who listens to them, so I have to think it's either 1.) a natural cycle or 2.) always been this way, and it's only because I'm now old enough to pay attention or increased communication. So I guess I'll go with "globalization" for $300, alex.
Wait, you think global warming is fringe?
Wait, you think global warming is fringe?
Global warming is fringe in the science community. "Fringe" in this case being something that is proven true, just not emphesised thusly a topic of extremism.
well, only in it's common usage in finding humankind at fault. That the earth has been warmer lately isn't fringe - that it's the result of CFC's and pollution is popular in the media and fringe in the scientific community.
redhurt: "...that it's the result of CFC's and pollution is fringe in the scientific community." I don't know that it's the view of 98% of scientists the way that, say, general relativity or evolution are; but it's not FRINGE, and we both know that. If you'd like to prove that it's fringe, I'd be happy to read articles, look at statistics, or otherwise analyze your case.
What about bird flu? (aka pestilence)Possibly killing 10's of millions of people. And polio was found in Amish children in Minnesota recenlty. How about "wars and rumors of war?" 66 people killed in Russia by gunmen. (Now that's a new one to the world scene) How many other wars are raging? Not to mention famine. Yes, my dear, these are the beginnings of the end.
It could be the beginning of the end, but I just think it's a little early to go around saying it is. I mean, think about WWII. Hitler rises to power and starts taking over the world...wars and rumors of wars. He does it while persecuting the jews and insituting a new humanist state sponsored religion in the nazi theocracy. He's heralded as the aryan messiah, and war on a scale the world has never seen before erupts.
If that doesn't look like the end times, I don't know what does. But it wasn't. So I don't think we'll know when the end is coming...we won't be sure until it's actually finally over.
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