In a message dated 6/16/01 7:12:26 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
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<< Simple. The next ice age comes 50k years prematurely. The melting polar ice
caps dump enough fresh water into the oceans to shut off the major ocean
streams, especially the gulf stream, it starts to snow everywhere, the snow
reflects the sun, the earth cools. Some evidence has shown that an ice age
can start in 50 years. (From a Science magazine I read 2 years ago, don't
know which week it was.) >>
That's interesting. I hadn't heard the details on that one.
I don't know if there's a dominant end of the world meme at the moment.
Economic tyranny by the WTO and killer meteors are still hanging around.
Environmental disaster due to global warming, ozone depletion and so forth
also seems to be a popular one.
I think the next end of the world will be biotechnology. There are already
concerns about genetic engineering, growth hormones and human cloning. As the
science advances, fears of misuse (genetic supermen, nanoplagues, etc.) are
going to rise.
Patrick Sweeney
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