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The End is Nigh - Really!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Rivers Pitt, Truthout)
Wed Dec 12 20:49:35 2012
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 20:49:34 -0500 (EST)
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t r u t h o u t | Unless you're a Republican pollster or you've been living under a rock - but I repeat myself - you've heard that, according to the Mayans, the world will be ending a week from Friday. Everyone, of course, will pooh-pooh the idea and laugh their way through the alleged apocalypse before toasting their continued existence... but here's the thing, folks, and I hate to break it to you: The world is, in fact, coming to an end.
Of us, that is. The humans. The only creatures inhabiting this planet with the unique ability to poison our mother oceans so severely that shellfish are melting due to the acidity of the water. Fishing grounds are disappearing. Plankton populations - the core of the oceanic food chain - are cratering. The clock, in point of fact, is running down to a hard deadline. "The end of the world" is certainly hyperbolic; the world will be fine, minus a few vast ecosystems here and there. We are the ones killing ourselves, as we whistle past our own graveyard while counting our money.
Threats like this are why Truthout exists. The world will not end next Friday, but if we do not step up and act now - right now, today, this very minute - that clock will run out. Please help us spread the word on what we are facing, and how we can affect real change before it is too late. If we don't, well, the Mayans will be proved right. They just got the date wrong.
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</center> <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Unless you're a Republican pollster or you've been living under a rock - but I repeat myself - you've heard that, according to the Mayans, the world will be ending a week from Friday. Everyone, of course, will pooh-pooh the idea and laugh their way through the alleged apocalypse before toasting their continued existence... but here's the thing, folks, and I hate to break it to you: <b>The world is, in fact, coming to an end.</b><br />
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Of us, that is. The humans. The only creatures inhabiting this planet with the unique ability to poison our mother oceans so severely that shellfish are melting due to the acidity of the water. Fishing grounds are disappearing. Plankton populations - the core of the oceanic food chain - are cratering. <b>The clock, in point of fact, is running down to a hard deadline.</b> "The end of the world" is certainly hyperbolic; the world will be fine, minus a few vast ecosystems here and there. We are the ones killing ourselves, as we whistle past our own graveyard while counting our money.<br />
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Threats like this are why Truthout exists. The world will not end next Friday, but if we do not step up and act now - right now, today, this very minute - that clock will run out. <b><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eYNztsNxqw7diqOn02ZIAKkSpr3aWx%2BV">Please help us</a> spread the word on what we are facing, and how we can affect real change before it is too late.</b> If we don't, well, the Mayans will be proved right. They just got the date wrong.</span></p>
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