End of the World Party

I believe strongly that we live in a world of karma. That karma may not come through instant delivery, but it does one day catch up to us.
To lead up to my actual argument, I will rely on the story of Noah's Ark:
I will not elaborate further than necessary to prove my point. The story's basic premis is that humanity failed. Everybody sins. So God came down, drowned the entire planet with the exception of one man and his wife, in addition to 2 of every animal. Assuming the animals are saved because we know that animals lack any free will and rely on instincts, they cannot be inherintly evil or corrupted. Animals cannot truly sin. So the world was wiped of sin by some higher power controlling our deaths. It was promised, at the end of this story, that the Lord would never impose such death upon the world again.

Since then, we have imposed enough death upon ourselves that it is not necessary for God to intervene.
This is my sagway to the fact that I truly believe there will be another plague in our lifetime, and I believe it will be the consequence of human actions.

In the 1820s, the first plague emerged. This plague was created by man's attempted disrespect towards its environment and its natural carelessness towards the planet that we walk on. A buildup of gargbage and substantial pollution over the years (basically a lack of hygene) introduced the first plague. After all the deaths, we simply rebuilt over our mistakes. In certain places in Europe right now they are exploring under current roads and finding old roads and villages that were destroyed by the plague.

Around a hundred years later, just after World War 1, the world was hit with the second universal epidemic: the influenza.
I'd argue that this would not be so much a direct consequence of our physical actions, but I would argue that it was a direct consequence of our intentions. We based our world on a world war. We used it as a crutch to support the economy and as a weapon wielded over words. In consequence to our pride and stupidity we were hit with a disease that wiped out more than the war itself did. I do no believe it was a coincidence that one was consecutive to the other. God stated that he would not unleash such a natural disaster on the world as the great flood, but I do believe he had some influence on the plagues.

So here we are: NEARLY 100 years later, and I do expect another plague. I, however, do not expect it to be a random disease or a natural disaster. I believe it will be a direct consequence of our age of technology and of our want to play God. Stephen King, I believe, agreed with this theory, having written The Stand and The Mist (both motion pictures, The Mist being a new release). This theory would also be portrayed by the relatively new movie: I am Legend. I suggest strongly that you at least see The Mist and I am Legend, but do watch The Stand if you are ever able to find it. Basically, I agree with these movies, assuming that our military advancements or technological advancements would destroy us all. This could branch off in two directions:

1. If something were to happen to our world, directly focused on our reliance on technology, the world would simply fall apart. Think about it, if all technology seized to fail, we would be left with nothing. I'm not only talking about electronics, I am also referring to the oil industry. So we are left with no electronics, or motor vehicles. The world that we live in would not know how to survive and chaos would being to rule our planet. I strongly believe that ultimate chaos could lead to man's ultimate destruction.

2. It is, in my opinion, even more likely that we become greedy with our research and advancements. This could be a new biological disease meant for war or for research that breaks loose. Seeing as it were hypothetically unlike all other strands of diseases, or assuming the disease were able to mutate as to not be affected by the anti-bodies we possess, it is easily assumable that nearly the entire human population (if not all) would be wiped out by this disease.
It could also be looked at as a cure to a disease causing ultimate death. We rely on our antibodies to protect us, and what they cannot do quickly enough, we use antibiotics to take care of. What if a cure was found for diseases such as cancer or AIDS. It has to be assumed that, with time, the disease would mutate to no longer be affected by the "cure". Assuming this were true, our body would not be able to fight the disease off any better than the medication could, causing death.

(The third man-made reason for the destruction of humanity would be World War 3. With our modern military technology and biological weapons, no human would survive. However, because this could not be considered a BIOLOGICAL plague, it does not merrit elaboration. I would argue, however, that it would still be humanity's ultimate plague.)

And so, as much as I would like to believe in human goodness, I can only rely on humans being the cause of our destruction. They think they are doing what is right by reducing Global Warming (and I would agree that it does need to be taken into some consideration), but they are forgetting that, before our environment should be saved from pollution, so must the human mind.

The Bible states that the world will end by the rath of God punishing us for our sins. I do not think that will be a physical rath; natural disasters will not be our end. I believe the rath comes in the form of karma. Before the end of my days, I expect to see humanity's ultimate failure.