Apocalypse Now?

Relax, I am not panicked about the end of the world (yet?)… But I must admit I got pretty bummed out reading some of those 2012 emails which explained the “facts” leading to the Mayan predictions of an apocalypse... (so bummed out before one particular eng paper that my essays on topics as childish as ‘a walk on the beach’ became so spiritual and philosophical that I thought it was some of my best writing! :P ) Anyway, the 2012 extravaganza has continued since, with movies being made (which are more hilarious than any kind of scary or intriguing…) and we have one more worry added to our lists…

For quite a while there I hadn’t really given it much of a thought. That was until last week. The earthquake and the subsequent tsunami in Japan were so catastrophic that the scenes managed to scare us more than any movie on these topics has. And why not? Because when nature puts on a show it blows you away. For good or for bad. But we certainly don’t want this sort of show to go on.. Which brings me back to 2012 phenomenon. Not hours from the disaster, the images were so terrifying that some of my friends and my mom asked me “Do you think this 2012 is for real?”

Now, I STILL don’t believe that the world is going to end. At least not so very soon. But none of us need an Einstein here to know that the human race is well equipped to destroy life as we know it on our planet. I mean, of course, if nature doesn’t beat us to it with some more events like a 2012. And it seems to be a close race!

This is entirely proven in Japan’s case here. If they don’t succeed in finding a way to avoid the Fukushima plant to fail completely a nuclear disaster will beat the natural disaster in causing loss to life and property.

The only uphill has been that now the world governments and the peoples are reconsidering the security and reliability of their nuclear projects and experiments. It is bad enough that we are choking the earth into the clouds of smoke and heaps of waste but now we annihilate it with nuclear power and warfare??

It is time to wakeup. Japan has woken up to the reality quite harshly (ironically it IS the land of the rising sun!)   Do we have to wait for another alarm for Mother Nature to tell us we are heading to a bad end? This earth needs the smallest contribution from each of us to fight the downhill battle and protect us from a 2012 or 2020 or 2898, at least from the man-made-parts of it….

The more you think about it the more chilling the truth gets! I don’t know about you, but at times I dread having to see the end of the world in my lifetime. We cannot ignore our fears and concerns any longer. Because fortunately or unfortunately we Homo sapiens have this amazing ability of adaptation- physical, mental and emotional. We forget and get over old problems and make way for new ones. After all, why else after 24 hours of the big disaster, our main problem was India’s loss to South Africa and all our prayers went for India to make the quarters! (And all our curses to Ashish Nehra!! :D )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_phenomenon

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-12711226