In 2012 we were suppose to listen to the Maya and wait for the end of the world, 21 December, to be exact….but we found what they were really predicting was the need for a new calendar………then there are other prophets that have predicted the end of the world for a 1000 years, probably more……and then there is the rapture that some of our religious brethren are waiting for to occur……Nostradamus had an encrypted message that some say predicts it also and Issac Newton is supposedly waiting for 2060 as the end…… but so far none of them have been accurate ( we will have to wait awhile for the one from Newton)……is there any one with any knowledge that is predicting our demise?

Funny you should ask……there is this……..

Don’t look now, but industrial society is going the way of the Dodo bird. According to a NASA-funded study, modern societies will self-destruct in the vein of past empires (think Roman, Han, Mesopotamian) because the 1% are consuming too much and we’re bound to run out of resources. “Who’s to blame?” asks Gizmodo. “You. Me. Everyone walking around outside your window.” The study itself gives a more detailed breakdown of how elites will gobble up too many resources and idly ignore impending disaster, the Guardian reports. Led by mathematician Safa Motesharri, the study found that energy, agriculture, water, climate, and population have undermined past empires when resources ran thin and society became overly stratified between haves and have-nots. “Collapse is difficult to avoid” in our society, probably because “elites consume too much” and will create “an inequality-induced famine.” Technology won’t save us, either, because it forces greater resource extraction and consumption. The only solutions? Distribute resources more fairly, use less-intensive renewable resources, and reduce population growth, the study says. “Which is just as difficult and improbable as it sounds,” sighs Gizmodo. (Click to see other theories about how human civilization could end.)

The 1%?  Does that mean we can blame Mitt when it happens?

Who would you like to blame?