Krivonos I.A., English adviser

Матеріал доповіді торкається «інформаційної бомби» щодо кінця світу 21.12.2012 року. Аналізується проблема екологічної катастрофи в світі та наводиться власна відповідь на запитання до теми.

To know why the world in its present incarnation must end, we should first know what the world is. Every incarnation of this world is a manifestation of its particular quantum state and it has a very, very precise duration. All periodic dissolutions of physical world are regular. It's only a matter of time when the world must be dissolved in its present state.

The objective of our research is to analyze the information in different sources of the mass media about the End of the World on December the twenty-first in 2012 and give the own answer to the main question of our topic.

When we have analyzed some Internet websites, newspaper press and have watched a lot of news about the End of the World on the twenty-first of December in 2012 long before that date, we have found interesting, cognitive but frightening information about it. It was a real information bomb. The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012 and linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 - hence the predicted doomsday date of December the twenty-first in 2012. But the Mayan connection "was a misconception from the very beginning," says Dr. John Carlson, director of the Center for Archaeoastronomy. "The Maya calendar did not end on December the twenty-first in 2012, and there were no Mayan prophecies foretelling the end of the world on that date." As some scientists argue, this date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then just as our calendar begins again on January the first another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.

We’ve had similar scares in the recent past, but none quite like this. The last time the world got all worked up over the mystical turning of a calendar was the false Millennium of January the first in 2000. Throughout history, end-of-the-world movements missing their mark number in the "hundreds of thousands at the very least, says Richard Landes, historian at Boston University and director of its Center for Millennial Studies. But people eager for the world to end are not to be denied.

Now we'd like to define the main problem of our research: any prophecies foretelling concerns not only the world catastrophe but the ecological ones. As we can notice, the perception that we are in an ecological crisis can no longer be dismissed as apocalyptic. In ways that are all too concrete, the accelerating degradation of our environment threatens life on Earth. Global warming has already changed climatic patterns, with consequences ranging from unusual and unpredictable weather to an increase in the quantity and severity of storms, droughts, floods, and fires. Icecaps melt, the ozone layer thins. Air is polluted with fossil fuel emissions and toxic chemicals; water with pesticides, agricultural and industrial waste, and metals that kill fish or make them inedible; soil with plastics and other synthetic, non-biodegradable materials. The mass-production and distribution practices of corporate agriculture and marketing destroy much of the nutritional value of food while contaminating it with chemicals, hormones, and now genetically modified organisms introduced without regard to the inevitable unforeseen consequences. Animals are raised in unhealthy conditions and given antibiotics to counteract them, resulting in a precipitous rise of resistant microorganisms that threatens our ability to fight infectious disease. Facing a rapidly diminishing supply of fossil fuels we invest not in clean, renewable sources of energy but in nuclear reactors that are vulnerable to accident and terrorism and produce ever-growing piles of radioactive waste with a half-life of thousands of years. Meanwhile cancer rates rise and affect younger and younger people, while asthma is an urban epidemic.

Nowadays the Earth accommodates more than five billion people. Half of which are undernourished. More than four million deaths occur each year from starvation. Mankind has finally realized the threat of increasing population and has faced the fact that something must be done. The food-supply increase lags considerably behind the immense growth of population. Besides conditions for crops growth steadily become worse due to numerous kinds of environmental pollution. Today's man consistently contributes to his own deadly crisis. We have got too many cars, too many factories, too much waste and carbon dioxide, too little water and food deficiency - all that can be easily traced to abundant human population. We agree with many western scientists who say that our world is going through an ecological crisis which will mean the gradual destruction of the human race. Our scientists are not that pessimistic, although they do think that man's increased influence on the planet is posing a growing threat to the biosphere. It is not too late to forestall what could be drastic and irreversible changes in the environment and ensure that the world will be a healthy place for the present and future generations to live in.

Though the ecological crisis does not affect everyone equally or in the same way, in the end it threatens the human habitat on which we all depend, regardless of economic status, nationality, race, sex, or age.

We’d like to agree with Rui Santos de Souza, from Brazil, who has written in his Website on December the ninth in 2012 the World is over, long ago. What has been destroyed once more can not finish at once. The Earth is eternal, because it became the Hell of humanity, and heaven has been destroyed by man, and only left the eternal Hell for us. Now is paying all our sins against our fellow men, against the other species, and against Mother Nature.

Finally, in conclusion, we would like to summarize our findings. The information about the End of the World was not a fiction; it was an insistent warning to think about the future of our planet. Having analyzed some studies, we can say that there are some solutions of this problem: think and solve the ecological problems right now; develop better recycling systems, fine people who damage and ruin wildlife and countryside beauty; arrange daily rubbish collection by recycling enterprises, take care about our environment. As a result, without thinking about the predictions of any catastrophe we’ll have less litter in the streets, prevent the spread of diseases, and reduce the amount of rubbish and save natural resources.

But unfortunately, nowadays we have the extreme growth of population, people need more and more resources and produce a lot of garbage, so crisis have no end, as long as people exist.