But there are plenty of people who are beginning to worry more than they have in the past. In approximately one year the earth's population will reach 7 billion people. By 2050 that number is estimated to grow to 9 billion. That's more people that have ever lived on Earth before. Due to the present hardwired self-centered ego-needs of the human animal, this figure is a detriment. If corporate overlords (including world governments) were more humane and less greedy, this number would be sustainable. But this isn't the case. Capitalism, in its present business format, is what's eroding the societal foundations of the planet as much as radical religious movements. This dilemma is not about to change anytime soon.
According to whoever erected the Georgia Guidestones, Facebook's current membership of 500 million is the ideal number of people to inhabit the planet. This number also pops up in the Handbook for the New Paradigm as a feasibly sustainable amount of people. If there is to be a radical reduction in global population, it will have to be done through a mass extinction event.
The latest doomsday criers are citing the discovery of a new comet, which some people believe is Planet X, as a possible trigger to this unforeseen world calamity, with a target date of 9/11/11. But if this threat evaporates like so many other doomsday scenarios, the chances of the elite to radically cull the population to that desired number is practically nil, if they don't want to take themselves out in the process. The reduction agent will have to be something so cataclysmically devastating that only cosmic force would succeed, or monumental Earth convulsions. Both are possible, though most people would like to believe that they're remote.
I can't blame politicians who continue bending the truth, coddling us into believing that times are getting better when we can plainly see that they are not. The alternative would be to tell us the truth and, of course, that would be unheard of. They want to keep us happy, consuming, and stupid.
In any case, atheist or true believer, it should make no difference if a mass extinction event takes place. For true believers it will be a chance to see if their faith has any merit; for the atheists, it's just a scientific reality, and maybe digging that hole in the ground in which to hide would be a good idea after all.
It will also be an opportunity to begin with a clean slate. An elevation in consciousness will certainly benefit the survivors. And if one is to believe the psychic channels, even atheists will no longer need to concern themselves with defending their religion because they will be extinct.