Dec 21, 2012

A day in the history, when the fate of the Earth will decide the fate of the mankind. A day which has alot of speculation attached to it because of media hype or because of the severity of the strings attached.

In a recent movie, “2012″ it was shown how futile things could be. The movie had a great impact on general masses but the big question lies here is :

“Will it be the End of the world, or just another day” ?

NASA recently released some facts and theories about the same which have been quoted below

Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012.
Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.

Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012?
A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 — hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.

Q: What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that the earth’s crust does a 180-degree rotation around the core in a matter of days if not hours?
A: A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. There are slow movements of the continents (for example Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the rotational poles. However, many of the disaster websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. They claim a relationship between the rotation and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal taking place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, anyway.

Q: How do NASA scientists feel about claims of pending doomsday?
A: For any claims of disaster or dramatic changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is the evidence? There is none, and for all the fictional assertions, whether they are made in books, movies, documentaries or over the Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. There is no credible evidence for any of the assertions made in support of unusual events taking place in December 2012.

After this piece of article by the NASA scientists,  We can easily predict that nothing bad is going to happen to our Mother Earth.

None-the-less, I still feel due to widespread distruction and wastage of natural resources, the day is not far enough when this Doom’s day will come & human race will have to pay the price for its deeds.

I feel we should take the Date as a indication and start to think, plan & do something not only for our homeland but for the Earth as a whole. Starting from our home itself, we could easily cut down power wastage by switching off appliances after use, reducing stand-by power usage and limiting the use of resources which are scared. According to a recent survey, one could easily save 85Watts of stand-by power per year just by putting off mobile chargers after use.

The waste disposal is also an area of concern which needs to be checked. Use of non-renewable energy should be minimised.

Rather than asking anyone, or waiting for others to do something, we should do what we all can do at our own.

Lets start the journey before its too late and we repent it later.