Dinesh's photos with the keyword: End Times

North America straddles the equator and is rotated almost 90 degrees with the early Appalachian forming a range of its southern coast. Most of the continent is covered by a shallow sea (Colorado Plateau Geosystem Inc)

On a rainy, misty day scienceviews.com/islands/hawaiianrocks.html The black sand that makes up the famous Hawaiian black sand beaches is made out of basalt. These beaches can form rapidly when molten lava meets the cold ocean water in an explosive confrontation. The shattered volcanic rock is further broken down as it is smashed together by the waves. Black sand beaches can be relative short lived. This photo shows the black sand of Maui's Pa'iloa beach.

www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/audiovisual/white-house-photo-collection-galleries/summits-mikhail-gorbachev Superpower Summit 1985 At their meeting U.S. President Regan and Soviet leader Gorbachev vigorously debated arms control and the many issues that separated their governments. Smiling frequently for the press and locked in an intense campaign for public support, especially in western Europe, they agreed only to meet again (Wide World Photos)

Seventy four thousand years ago, give or take a few millennia, Homo sapiens had a very bad day, perhaps the worst day that we’ve ever experienced. On what is now the Indonesial Island of Sumatra, a mountain called Toba exploded -- though the word doesn’t do justice to the act of sheer geographical violence perpetrated that day. What happened to Toba was a destruction that scientists would eventually coin a term for volcanic disasters of its scale: supereruption. But the eruption was only the beginning. Toba’s aftereffects dimmed the sun and draped a volcanic winter around the world. It might have brought our species closer to the brink of extinction than ever or since. At a moment when Homo sapiens was far from the world-dominating force we are today, Toba was our ultimate trial. It was also a warning -- the most dangerous natural existential risk we face comes not from the skies above, but from the ground beneath our feet. ~ Excerpt “End Times” Author - Bryan Welsh

In a 2012 poll by Reuters covering more than twenty countries, 15 percent of respondent predicted that the world would end in their lifetimes. A 2015 survey of Americans, British, and Australians found that a majority rated the risk of our way of life ending within the next one hundred years to 50 percent or greater, while a quarter believed humanity had a better than even chance of being wiped out altogether over that time frame. More Americans believe that life was better fifty years ago -- when a nuclear holocaust was an everyday possibility -- than it is today. In 2018, a UN scientific penal reported that the world had just twelve years to sharply reduce carbon emission or risk a global catastrophe. Meanwhile, the tone of the news in the era of President Donald Trump has become nothing short of apocalyptic on both sides of the political divide. ., . . . If we fear end times, part of us seems to crave them -- and perhaps believe we deserve them. ~ Page 3 (Excerpt: “End Times” - Author : Bryan Walsh