Meltdown planet Earth?, Is Katrina ominous sign of future Options

According to the scientists were going to have one of the worst hurricane, typhoon etc seasons ever recored in America. Katrina's damage has been massive, far more than the average storm. Of course it's unfortunate that so many have died.

I'm mainly wondering, who here thinks that this is really just a period of natural climate change, or if this is ominous sign that the world's eco-terrorism will lead to greater and greater natural disasters until earth is just a junk heap.

My personal belief is that the world is changing for the better, but by being narrow minded and not understanding the true nature of the sentiment of terrorism most of the world will abuse the resources of the world will become a very bad place to live. Of course, I know that we as a whole believe science will rescue us from everything and it will be interesting to see if science really does supply us with those things which we need. I'm interested to hear what everyone else thinks about this.

Yeah, the ozone depletion disgusts me too, on a physical level mostly, what I would give to breathe fresh air no matter where I go.

I see the end of the world more as a metaphor and figurative stance than anything literal. Revelations is a brilliant example of what can happen when people start taking things too litterally though I suppose the end might happen that way (IMG:style_emoticons/default/king.gif)

Though the hurricane is transient it's interesting to note that all it's on the heels of the large tsunami, which in turn on the heels of a rather large earthquake in china that killed hundreds (Maybe the earthquake came in between). I don't believe in coincidence, more often than not coincidence is a word the average person uses to forget about the magic in the world. Of course that these are all happening at once doesn't entail the end of the world in my opinion, but perhaps its a trend and one that may grow.

I for one am never pleased to see the loss of life no matter how small a quantity of the population that may be. If disasters do keep striking the toll will only increase, though its not appealing to myself, it's not something I fear.

There are actually many ways the earth could kill off nearly everyone or everyone if it so deemed. Spinning out of orbit would basically destroy every human, a total polarity and shift into another ice age would most definitely not be good, and that's just a couple of possibilites. If the powers that be abandoned this earth many different things destructive possibilites could occur.

Now is december 21, or 22nd (not twelfth) 2012 a doomsday for earth? It's a rhetorical question, and one that I doubt, but a coincidence like such as a date is not something I am willing to ignore. It would most definitely be a good thing if the world no longer used gasoline by that date but who knows how deep the wells of oil are, just because the price is up doesn't mean it's almost gone. Will humankind still be polluting the world with nuclear waste by 2012? More than likely yes, I'm not attempting to be a scare monger of course, but I think that's it's foolhardy for governments to ignore the earth and pretend humanity is living on it's own. We ain't humankind is living on earth.

This post has been edited by Bb3: Sep 18 2005, 05:33 AM