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Originally Posted by Bastian
There will be no end of the world. Well, there will be, but only in a couple of million years, when the sun swallows earth, but mankind will not be limited to earth at that point, so it doesn't matter.
The cold war almost killed us, but nowaday, risk is much lower to have an planetwide overkill. There might be a few smaller nuclear wars in the next future, but only with "limited" casulties. Neither China, nor Russia nor the USA will go for the all-out nuclear attack that is needed to get rid of the human race once and for all.
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Dude, you'd better fuckin' knock on wood. Right now. Do it. Don't go tempting fate.
Seriously, though, I joke about the end of the world on a near daily basis, pretty much every time I turn on the news. We could go by global warming, worldwide suicide (I know, fuck Pearl Jam, but the term just fit), meteorite, pandemic, epic stingray uprising, you name it. I wouldn't completely write off the possibility, but I also wouldn't get too obsessive over it. If it's gonna happen, fine, best we can do is whatever we can, within our individual powers, to squash the bullshit (political, social, etc...) around us and encourage the people we know and/or meet to do the same in turn and just hope for the best. Badly worded sentiment, perhaps, but I think the idea's in there somewhere.