Last Days on Earth
Did anybody catch ABC’s Last Days on Earth hosted by Elizabeth Vargas last night?
It was a really great show about all the top potental catastrophic events, both natural and man-made, that could challenge life on the planet in the decades to come.
It was two hours and I missed the first part but enjoyed their treatment of the last five scenarios: super volcanos, asteroids, nuclear war, global pandemic and climate change.
When they spoke about extinction, they reminded us that 99% of the species that have existed on the planet are now extinct and also pointed out that when an asteroid hit the earth around the Yucatan peninsula it probably wiped out the dinosaurs. The extinction of the dinosaurs allowed a small mammal, a rodent, to flourish and ultimately evolve into man.
Life is both fragile and tenacious. Tenacious as an ongoing evolutionary process, fragile at the level of specific species.
Evolution and the ongoing transformation of the universe are pure beauty.
I was amazed at how many people said that if they knew they were going to die in such an event they would spend the rest of their life praying, without ever wondering why a supposedly loving God would do such a thing to them and everything else he had supposedly created.
Many experts also noted that if such an event were to happen, all government and legal systems would break down, paper currency issued by governments would become worthless and it would be every man for himself.
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