Year 2012: End of the World

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Forget about Nibiru, Nostradamus, or the Maya(n) calendar ending on Dec 21 2012. None of those things is worth worrying about. Peak oil on the other hand should have you tossing and turning in your sheets with nightmarish visions of what might befall you, your children, your grandchildren, even the [...]

There is a lot of speculation these days about the possibility of a global cataclysm in the next few years. Most of this attention is based on the Mayan calendar. December 21, 2012 is the supposed end of the Mayan long form calendar, but it is only the end of one epoch, not the end [...]

It is evident in my articles that while I have no fear of a foretold apocalypse in the year 2012 I am genuinely concerned for the future of the human species. Our planet is durable, having survived multiple mass extinction events in the past (including some that cycle with apparently clockwork precision every 27 million [...]