Doomsday

Some of the world’s most serious thinkers fear that our time here may be more limited than we’d like to imagine. No less a luminary than Dr. Stephen Hawking, arguably the world’s greatest living scientist (Dr. Hawking holds the chair at Cambridge University in England once held by a fellow named Isaac Newton), has warned about the demise of life on earth. For Dr. Hawking, global warming is our biggest threat.
 
Meeting with college students in Asia, Dr. Hawking said that unless things change (and he’s not optimistic that they will), the earth “might end up like Venus, at 250 degrees centigrade and raining sulphuric acid.” A 250-degree-centigrade world raining sulphuric acid is not going to sustain human life (the only beings that might survive are cockroaches).
 
In fact, Dr. Hawking said that things are so bad, our only hope is to get off the planet. That is, we need to colonize space, because this old earth just isn’t going to make it much longer. “Life on Earth,” he said, “is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers. . . . I think the human race has no future if it doesn’t go into space.”
 
Here are five possible scenarios for the end of the world :
1. Asteroids
2. Climate disaster
3. Nuclear war
4. Plague
5. CERN
 
Economic growth is the biggest destroyer of the ecology. Those people who think you can have a growing economy and a healthy environment are wrong. If we don’t reduce our numbers, nature will do it for us … Everything is worse and we’re still doing the same things. Because ecosystems are so resilient, they don’t exact immediate punishment on the stupid.