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  Jane : riversong

rob hopkins, transitions towns talks of 2012

Jane said Sep 7, 4:59 PM:
 

http://transitionculture.org/2009/09/02/2012-and-the-return-of-the-alarmingly-gullible/
  dugaum : Servant of the Design

Re: rob hopkins, transitions towns talks of 2012

dugaum said Sep 7, 6:13 PM:
 

Thanks Jane,
Nice to see a voice of sanity about 2012 (although I like some of that millennial energy in terms of stimulating participation or engagement).

I think he is correct in that anything that could raise the ocean over the Himalayas would certainly rip the planet apart, eh? But it is so cool to watch.

And, finally…don't take your eyes off the ball here folks. Do what needs to be done today…he said it well.

Cheers,
Doug
  maryw : ponderer

Re: rob hopkins, transitions towns talks of 2012

maryw said Sep 8, 12:38 PM:
 

“But it is so cool to watch.”
 
I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, Doug and Jane and all, but I'm kind of looking forward to this 2012 movie. I saw a longer preview of it recently – oh the meteors! the wild wild weathers! the tsunamis! the skyscrapers torn asunder! the off -the-Richter-scale continental shifts! Just can't resist a good carnival ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyCCd8MCcZY&feature=related

I've been noticing a similar plethora of end-of-the-world fantasies in some TV documentary series – speculative shows that come on the Discovery Channel or the History Channel in the U.S., such as “Mega Disasters,” “It Could Happen Tomorrow,” “Nostradamus 2012” ….. They typically include fairly detailed dramatizations of what will happen when the next Big Meteor (or a comet) hits, or when the Yellowstone caldera explodes, or a major earthquake hits New York City, or a gamma-ray blast fires across the galaxy, with Earth in its direct path …. what is behind this horror-show taste for civilizational and planetary destruction, I wonder?

Mary