When people ask me, “do you really
believe the world is going to end in 2012?” I respond with, “well, yes actually
I do.” And when asked what my reasoning for this belief is, I tell them, just
think about it. It goes from being freezing to being 70 degrees and sunny the
next day it’s in the lower 80’s the day before spring starts here in New
England as it’s snowing in Arizona during the same time. I really believe that
this will be the year when we get a foot of snow in the middle of August, and if
so, we’re all, unfortunately, done for. I do not tend to look at the negative
side of a situation but in this case, I think it is better to somewhat humor
the idea rather than avoid talking about it at all costs. With all of the hype
in the media and the movies and documentaries that have been done to showcase
the idea that the world is going to end on December 21, 2012, has people scared
of the topic and don’t want to even fathom the idea because of similar scares
in past years, that clearly did not happen because we are all here today.
You could die, anywhere at any time
due to any cause imaginable. So the idea that we will one day all die at the
same exact time on the same day is not that scary to think about because, well
we will no longer be here, unless you’re Will Smith of course. But wouldn’t you
rather die with everyone you know and love than to die suddenly and leave all
of your loved one behind? For example, next period someone could get their
finger caught in the pencil sharpener, not realizing it and continue to sharpen
it until they die instantly due to blood loss or a girl could be walking
through the hallways and accidently walk out the back doors into the
construction zone just to be run over by a bulldozer… You never know, these are
the things we should be scared of, not the world blowing up into a million pieces
so there is not one ounce of human life is left in existence. We live our lives
every day not even thinking about the possibility that we could die in the next
second, but when someone poses the idea that we could all die together on the
same day when the world blows up, no one believes it. Why?
I’m not insisting that we all live
in fear until we get past the day that the Mayans predicted our world’s destiny
to be, because for all I know it won’t happen. But when I’m out and about with
my friends and I see something very odd occurring, all I can think to say is,
“that’s definitely another sign that the world is going to end” and I say this
to get a comedic response but when in reality it could be true. It is a
situation like this where we don’t think about everything that goes on around
us every day, there are people dying every second and we’re all worried about
when the whole world blows up, what’s going to happen? NOTHING IS GOING TO
HAPPEN BECAUSE WE WILL ALL BE DEAD! Not just the civilians of the United States,
the ENTIRE WORLD will be gone; which for some is hard to wrap their heads
around. The idea that EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING in the entire planet will be
completely vanished, weird right?
In the past few years, you may have
noticed, the new “eco-friendly” water bottles, the new cars trying to cut down
on the amount of gas we used and using reusable shopping bags in order to help
our planet, but clearly none of these things are doing anything for our climate
change. I give people credit for at least attempting to change things in our
world to increase how long our environment can put up with us. But I honestly
don’t think that any of those things have made a significant difference,
whatsoever. No one wants to believe it or admit that they believe it, but at the
same time there are millions of people trying to conserve energy in various
different ways, but does anyone see these things making a huge impact? I don’t.
And do you think little things like these are going to save the world from
blowing up someday, probably not considering that people are still continuing
to litter daily and also the pollution poisoning our air, will sadly, most
likely, never be resolved.
What
I think that is what people really don’t think about and understand that there
is much more going on around us than what we see in the United States every
day, people are dying due to many different causes every second, and those
people suffering now will be dead along with the rest of us, come December of
2012. One major concern of scientists about the issue of global warming is
water vapor. The amount of water vapor that is produced is the Earth's most significant greenhouse gas, accounting for about 95% of Earth's greenhouse
effect, the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere
due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the
sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface. Human activities
contribute slightly to greenhouse gas concentrations through farming, manufacturing, power generation, and
transportation. However, these emissions are so dwarfed in comparison to
emissions from natural sources we can do nothing about, that even the most
costly efforts to limit human emissions would have a very small perhaps
undetectable effect on global climate. So something such as this, is something
that us, as the human race occupying our beloved planet, is something that we
could potentially help fix, but will we ever get to that point? I guess we’ll
have to wait and see.
Going about solving this universal
issue, is difficult. One solution could be if we just went about ending the
world ourselves and just blew up the entire planet as a joined force. It would
be much better and easier; we could plan it out so everyone does it at the same
exact time, leaving no one left in the world. Just imagine if there was some
possible way for a single red button, think like the overly obnoxious Staples
‘easy button’, where once someone, somewhere on this plant touched this one
button, the entire world blew up from the inside core out, killing all of us
before global warming suffocates our land any longer. Going about this and
getting the entire planet to get
involved and end it sooner, rather than later. We would first need to form a
committee to get this process underway, and decide exactly how we would pull
this off, we need to do it in a timely fashion before Mother Nature does her
job and does it before can even finish planning how we will. The internet has
become a way of life in every corner of the world, in some way or another, even
in third world countries, there is a way to make it possible for them to access
other parts of the world, it might just be a little harder to accomplish. But taking
advantage of what we have, putting out a mass Service Announcement to get this
idea out to the world and get as many people involved as possible. And we know
that we’re going to many people that will be again this idea and try to protest
it and say that it is unrealistic and ridiculous. I would say, that based on
the weather we have been experiencing lately and the economic downturn in the
past few years… IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN SOON ENOUGH PEOPLE, so let’s go and get
it over with now so we know when it’s coming, can say goodbye to those we love
and be done with it, this would kill the anticipation, pun intended. Instead of
anticipating the day Mother Nature is going to choose for us, we can choose it
ourselves and have power over the world for just one second before it all
crumbles down.
This is a really good topic.. Something you could have done differently is take on a different persona. You could have pretended to be someone who had certain credentials about the topic in order to add more ethos.
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