"The end of the world is Nigh"

[the_bob_delusion]

So the Christians claim the end of the world is approaching as indicated in the bible. Bushfires, viruses, flooding, earthquakes  and locus plaque etc etc have all been prophesied as signs of the imminent apocalypse and judgement day.

Do you think the world is ending?

Are you worried?

Do you think you'll go to heaven or hell?

[the_great_she_elephant]

The next mass extinction will probably include homo sapiens - after which the cockroaches and their descendants will inherit the planet.

[4channel]

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@joz*garage wrote:

CO2..Currently 414.13 PPM and on the rise

Scientists predict once it reaches 440-450 PPM the place will become uninhabitable

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More trees need to  be planted. Inn cities there's space on rooftops. Plant small trees on top of the buildings.

[springyzone]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

As far as I understand it, there's no specific day or hour for an end of the world scenario.

Springyzone has also highlighted how inaccurate it is to bundle people together into a group defined by the perception that they are (apparently) all imminently awaiting doomsday.

1. The world, as part of the universe, has a beginning and has an end. The observation of matter on a macro level points to the well-known Second Law of Thermodynamics giving us no real wriggle-room - unless we want to introduce the chaos of the sub-atomic world onto a larger scale than we tend to see. Order becomes disorder; ripeness proceeds to rotting; the living will end up dying. I don't just think that the world is ending; I know it to be so.
2. Worried... I suppose I half-worry and half-don't. Human actions have an impact on our planet, and unfortunately we have by and large proved ourselves to be poor stewards of it. It's not all our fault, of course, and we cannot play King Canute and hold back the tide of time itself. It's a pity and a shame that we can't respect life itself in all of its variety and beauty and power and complexity more than we - the human race - clearly do. I worried almost incessantly during the bushfires that caused such damage earlier this year, in particular because of the terrible, acrid, deadly smoke which made my father's symptoms all the worse. (Of course I also experienced a nasty lot of symptoms, as so many of us in affected areas did.) I worry about the devastation caused by the wildly infectious and dangerous SARS-CoV-2. I worry about the melting ice, the endangered species and those already (tragically) extinct, the shrinking biodiversity, the plight of bees. Then I remind myself that there are many things I simply cannot control... that what I can change, I do change, and where I can't, I want to let my eyes, my ears, my nostrils and my nerve cells and all that is sense and sensation find joy in what we do have. I drink a glass of worry-be-gone and get on with things.

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Isn't it interesting, the concept of beginning and end.

Obviously we all, as humans, have what I think of as a fairly limited life span, so gather ye rosebuds while ye may etc

Our Earth too has a span. Eventually our sun will go super nova. 

What I find hard to get my head around is the question of the universe having a beginning and an end. I can understand the concept of change and a universe without the present planets, stars etc but what defeats me is the concept of nothingness, no universe.

[lionrose.7]

In humans lives we have day and night, life and death, every thing has a beginning and a end

We do not have the brains to understand infinity, we are not made that way

Well thats what I tell my self after wondering about since I was child.

Mum where does the sky end 🙂

[joz*garage]

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@4channel wrote:

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@joz*garage wrote:

CO2..Currently 414.13 PPM and on the rise

Scientists predict once it reaches 440-450 PPM the place will become uninhabitable

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More trees need to  be planted. Inn cities there's space on rooftops. Plant small trees on top of the buildings.

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Maybe quit deforestation, this will also allow animals to remain in their natural habitat & reduce to risk of spreading disease to humans 

Plants on roof tops? More like rooftop solar

The main causes of climate change are the burning of fossil fuels also methane produced from the meat industry

These need to be addressed

So many other things, pollution of our water ways

Sea plants are the main absorbers of CO2 but they're dying out due to Climate Change