This an old story retold generation after generation and century after century: The end of the world is coming soon. How long have they been saying the world is going to end? Back in the ancient times they had predicted the end was near many times but we’re still here. However, there have been many predictions for the year 2012, there’s even been a specific date given December 21, 2012 or 12/21/2012. Like many predictions of the past people are just now saying this because we’re coming closer to the time but people have actually been saying this as far back as the Mayans. That’s the difference between this date and the many other "end of world" predictions.
Why does any of this even matter? Well, partly because I needed something to write about, but, also because this date or at least that year would be the most probable for things to go wrong and catastrophically destroy the world. There is so much tension in the world right now most people would assume the cap would have to blow eventually or end all together but at the rate it’s going I don’t think the tension is going to end. And what happens when the tension isn’t being released same thing as a pot of boiling water with a lid on it, it starts pouring out all over the place. So this could be a possibility and probably the most likely to happen even if it’s not in 2012 it is eventually going to boil over.
Do I think the world will come to an end? Not necessarily but I do believe that if we don’t ease some of the worldwide tension we could be looking at a potential WWIII. We have the protests going on with the Chinese Olympics, we have the U.S.-Iran tensions, we have new threats such as global warming, and we have just regular people going out and killing innocent people more and more often. I think if anything is going to lead to a WWIII, "end of world" type of catastrophe it would have to be if the countries boycotted the Olympics in China. China with the largest standing army, China with the largest population and very little space, China with the fastest growing economy. Now I’m not talking bad about the Chinese but there government may not take kindly to the entire world boycotting the Olympics in there country, not that that’s happening yet, and they may fly off the deep end if it were to happen.
The end of the world could be a long ways out or it could be tomorrow, I don’t know. I do know we could see some disastrous catastrophe’s if the world can’t come together and work out their differences with each other. It can be done we just need to see past each others differences and learn to compromise for the good, and survival, of the worlds citizens.
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