The End of the World

[275 words] It seems that as mankind has achieved greater levels of technological sophistication, the more he has worried about the end of the world. This is almost certainly because we have achieved the ability to completely wipe out life on earth. If war ever broke out, even a limited exchange consisting of a tiny percentage of the world’s nuclear arsenal would be enough to plunge our planet into nuclear winter. This worries a great many people. At least one fear of the end of the world will continue until midnight on December 21 of this year. The Meso-American Long Count Calendar supposedly predicts the end of everything on that date. Mayan scholars dispute this claim, but it hasn’t stopped people from proclaiming the end of the world just days before Christmas (it even inspired the movie 2012 starring John Cusack). Scientifically, astronomers state that there will come a time…