In answer to the question asked on the BBC News website today I'd like to say this. It is because the world is such a mess that it looks like it's going to end in seventeen years or so.
Given that there are more pollutants in the air than at any time previous in mankind's history, we are still making bombs while children in Britain starve to death, cancer is on the rise, there are drought threats in our temperate climate zones and the Western World still buys the blood diamonds and gold of Africa, then I'd say that there is plenty of reasons to say that the human race is going to hell in a handcart.
Perhaps the people who make these predicts hope that if they say that if mankind doesn't buck up it's act in seventeen years time then we are going to start suffering then the human race might just take notice of what it is doing and buck up its act.
However, I don't think that it will. If you read the book of Jeremiah then you will know that people have been making these predictions since the time of Babylon. Nobody listened to them then and nobody is going to listen to them now. Why? Because people don't care. They want to carry on their lives, not bothering to change, taking what they want when they want it. It's a case of 'today's alright and we'll deal with tomorrow when it comes'.
Well what if tomorrow comes and you can't deal because the time to deal was today and today has already become yesterday?
It is why I signed up to receive e-mails from SumOfUs . It takes me, what, five minutes max to sign an online petition to tell Bayer to accept the pesticide ban from the EU and stop trying to sue the EU for 'loss of profits'. SumOfUs has already done the hard work, they have tracked down the lawsuits and set up the petition to tell the greedy where to get off, all I have to do is put my name on the line and then do my best not to buy stuff from Bayer and other companies like it.
Think about, five minutes out of your day and then being more conscientious of where you buy your stuff. Doesn't take much does it but it could just change the world.
Cause its not the big things that change the world, not really. It's not the big predictions of doom that make people sit up and take notice. It is the little things. Things like, instead of having a large coffee at the Café, you settle for the medium and use the spare change to buy a Big Issue.
And if you don't believe me about how the little things change the world, think about how much the world changed when one black man walked out of a jail cell in South Africa and decided to forgive those that put him there?
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