Year of disasters

Erm.... the Mayans did not make prophecies about the "end of the world" - that was a silly modern phenomena.

And, a major contributing cause to these disasters are non-green technology (e.g. cars, planes etc) and population increase.

However, the current state of things are nothing to get scared over (in the 1800s, if the Japanese earthquake had occurred then, we would have seen millions dead...).

However, if we do see a large scale earthquake (9+ magnitude) in London, for example, then we should be worried.... very worried....

Ouch. People aren't numbers.

I die a little bit inside whenever I see 2012 mentioned around current affairs.

So how do you define 10 people?
Humans ARE numbers. How else could we quantify how many people have died in Libya for example.

Humanity really needs to grasp the concept it is an animal, just as insignificant as a greenfly.

No, nowhere near as insignificant as a "greenfly". Humanity is highly important on the planet - whether in negative importance or positive importance. In the far-off future, if the Race still survives, Humanity would be far more important in the Solar System and even Galaxy - again, even if in negativity or positivity.

Roll on 2012...

So how do you define 10 people?
Humans ARE numbers. How else could we quantify how many people have died in Libya for example.

Humanity really needs to grasp the concept it is an animal, just as insignificant as a greenfly.

You count humans in numbers but you can't dispose of them in the same way. The person I quoted said 'the population of the world is too big anyway' which I thought was harsh. Of course we have a population problem but saying the above quote when so many people are dying implies that the person I quoted thinks all these natural disasters are a good thing - almost like a cull on humans. I thought that was entirely inappropriate and insensitive. We may be insignificant in the bigger picture, but those people that died were significant to somebody, and I doubt the person I quoted would have said that if it was somebody they loved that had died.

Everywhere you look there are earthquakes, floods , tsunamis, revolutions and famines.

I know that some of this may be due to increased coverage of disasters but too me it just seems there is too many of them occurring

I'm not really a believer in the 2012 prophecies but I am a little worried...