Canscene) — If ever there were an ill-timed flurry of publicity around a disaster scenario it’s now, with self-styled pundits citing evidence from an ancient Mayan calendar, that the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012 with the media reporting these beliefs extensively.

Let’s take a look a a worst case scenario this new prediction could exacerbate.

Fundamentalists could say “what the Hell, we saw it coming,” anti-environmentalists could say what’s the use of thinking and acting green? and fatalists and nihilists cold be prodded into total anarchy if they fail to see how so many predictions of this kind have been made through the centuries, a major one of which was that death and destruction would rain down on us in the year 2,000. Remember Y2K?

The 2012 prediction is the stuff of supermarket tabloids. This time, let’s try to confine it to them.
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