The year 2012 is the year of extinction, many things seem to converge at this point, the pyramids of Egypt with this date written inside one of them, the prophecies of Nostradamus and other doomsday-apocalyptic prophecies.
All of this is a mockery to common sense, let's look at things as they really happen, within 1 year life on Earth could disappear it's true, it's very unlikely but it can happen, for example a huge extrasolar object could collide and produce a disaster of similar magnitude to the one that killed the dinosaurs, a large part of humanity could succumb to an epidemic of some type of virus currently unknown, the LHC causes a black hole and swallows the Earth, (This is a joke) etc. etc., as a result of this:
The Earth after some time would regenerate and the human race could decline significantly or become extinct, well it's something undesirable but the truth is that for thousands of years humans have been dying, normally not in a massive way except for a great war or epidemic, but rather in a more or less natural way, each being that dies experiences their particular end of the world, the difference is in the quantity, to be considered the end of the world most of humanity or all of it must become extinct.
Theories change, the way of living, of seeing life, of contemplating beauty, the economy, life expectancy and even reality changes if we admit that we observe everything from a temporal-limited perspective, and well it doesn't seem to concern us much, mainly because it happens little by little and we don't have enough perspective in one lifetime, the vast majority of the prejudices we use lack value when observed from a sufficient distance, what a pity that we haven't invented a popular way of doing it.
Nor does it seem to concern us in the slightest the part of Earth's history in which the human being did not exist and there was simply no humanity, something similar to the worst of apocalyptic scenarios, thankfully no man witnessed such an atrocity "an Earth without human beings", we can imagine however that the human race disappears, it is a concern in which we place ourselves above the Earth, the solar system, the galaxy and the universe in its immeasurable and infinite totality, goodness does anyone seem to fear that the universe will end?.
The human being is a specialist in survival, after all the purpose of evolution is to get out of all of it one way or another, and certainly it seems we have no concerns beyond our human navel.
As an example let's take the fuss over 2012 and the end of the world, a concern fueled by interests with a selfish basis, wouldn't it be more liberating and closer to the truth to contemplate the world from a perspective alien to man?, after all we are objectively just one more element, and it's unlikely that any of my readers will be alive in 150 years
A total destruction of the Earth would align all the species that inhabit it and would have repercussions on the rest of the solar system, but Nostradamus and the Mayans and no one speaks of any of this, everyone worries about themselves, a little suspicious no? Is man situated in a tiny solar system on the outskirts of a small galaxy in perhaps an infinite universe something important? or rather is it something that gives itself a lot of importance, Aren't we placing ourselves as the center of the universe?
If one day we discover that millions of light years away there exists an intelligent organic form of life will we continue feeling like the center of the universe? And if they also feel like the center of the universe because they believe themselves to be unique?
A quote says that "if all insects disappeared from Earth all forms of life would also die in about 50 years, however if man disappeared all forms of life would flourish in less than 50 years" fortunately and despite the fact that we are not the center of the universe we are certainly the center of life on Earth, if it were not so we would have already disappeared, this video is about animals that we know with absolute certainty are becoming extinct, of course Nostradamus said nothing about this.