think of earth as a living being because it is just like you and me just more sophisticated and yes the world will end soon probably next ten years or so because whether you want to "believe" it or not we (western culture) are killing it extremely quickly, and as long as bush is in charge there really is not alot of hope considering hes putting like 15 billion dollars towards building seven new nuclear power plants in the us. anyways cherynobyl been in the news lately and in case you dont know much about that and how shit it caused in the ukraine check it out here...
http://www.wagingpeace.org/menu/issu...sheet_ne&w.htm
On April 26, 1986 the No. 4 reactor at the Chernobyl power plant (in the former U.S.S.R., present-day Ukraine) exploded, causing the worst nuclear accident ever.
30 people were killed instantly, including 28 from radiation exposure, and a further 209 on site were treated for acute radiation poisoning.
The World Health Organization found that the fallout from the explosion was incredibly far-reaching. For a time, radiation levels in Scotland, over 1400 miles (about 2300 km) away, were 10,000 times the norm.
Thousands of cancer deaths were a direct result of the accident.
The accident cost the former Soviet Union more than three times the economical benefits accrued from the operation of every other Soviet nuclear power plant operated between 1954 and 1990.
it was recently reported that there are at least 90000 cases of cancer or cancer deaths that have been a direct result of the radiation exposure that was as far reaching as scotland