Did anyone see the program on ABC, "Last Days of Earth"?

Question

It talked about seven scenerios in which life could become extinct on Earth.

Number 5 was the Super-Volcano, Yellowstone is one those that could change the landscape of the country and bring on a new ice age.

Number 4 the asteroid. The ironic thing with asteroids is they are death dealers (death of the the dinosaurs) and life givers (the death of the dinosaurs allowed us to evolve)

Number 3 is Nuclear War, still a threat. Just because the cold war is over, doesn't mean the US and Russia still have thousands of nukes pointed at each other.

Number 2 is plague, bird flu, some super virus. Humans can now make viruses far more deadly than anything nature could cook up.

Number 1 is global warming. All the scientists in the world believes this is the greatest threat to our survival. Notice how the top three where manmade events. It seems that the biggest threat to our own survival is ourselves. Even though we may be intelligent, our instincts are getting in the way.

My point of this question was to show that no one is going to save us from our mistakes. We crave for that parent to take care of us. If we destroy ourselves it's because we did it, not God or the devil's work. If all life on the Earth is wiped out, the Earth will still be here. It will heal itself and life may evolve again. But they won't be human.

This also makes life so much more fragile than ever. We are renting the Earth. She can evict us anytime she wants!

I stunk? We are our own worst enemy. No, it's not Satan. It's humans. Consider the atom bomb. Which is basicly taking a piece of Sun and replicating it on Earth. An amazing amount of power. These man-made threats are proof of our evolution. Every animal has a basic survival instinct. So do we, we sometimes have the ability to supress these emotions with reason and logic. It seems there are some who do not surpress these base emotions and give in to their "instincts"

Exactly Duckphup. I don't know what is more scary, the end of the world or a theocratic society which is what we are slowing turning into.

Answer 1

Just to point out, contrary to what the media portrays, global warning is a natural process, not man made. What the media fail to mention in any stage is the fundamental principal of the orbiting earth around the sun and in intermediate cylce of ice-ages. Im not going into details, will bore you here if I havent already, but the whole global warming thing is not documented over a significant period of time to warrant such claims.

Answer 2

One thing that they neglected to mention, with regard to Global Warming, is the possibility of a 'tipping point'. Everybody is cruising along, thinking that we've got 100 or 200 years to deal with this... but that ain't necessarily so. There are billions of tons of CO2 locked up in the permafrost, in northern climes. If we reach the point where the permafrost starts to thaw out, those billions of tons are going to go into the atmosphere in a VERY short period of time, and the effects will be irreversible. All of humanity is done for... along with everything else. The Earth could end up like Venus within the next 50 years.

One of the most troubling things to me is that the Pres isn't concerned about this. He's also not concerned about things like the national debt, either. Why not? Because he's one of those right-wing Christian wackos that thinks that the Rapture will occur within the next 50 years. He doesn't think that we're going to have to worry about paying off the debt, or worry about global warming, because Jesus is going to show up and none of that will matter any more. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that he and his cronies think they are doing god's work by NOT INTERFERING with Global Warming... and that Global Warming is the way that bible prophecy will be fulfilled.

Be afraid... be very afraid.

Answer 3

I recorded it.
We have really messed up the Earth. We were put in charge of it and we have just made it a dumping ground.

I think that Nuclear weapons will kill many people. But, we will clean it up and make a Earth with no war, hatred, etc.

I believe that NUCLEAR WAR will begin September 12, 2006.

I read this on a couple of sites and I clicked YES on a poll asking if I believe.

Answer 4

It was a very interesting show. Skunk grease, you stunk the truth by saying that we are our own worst enemy.

Answer 5

Yes it was quite chilling. It stayed on my mind today as well. Just think below us is alot of heat as well.

Answer 6

nope