Apocalypse has several meanings.
Another name for the book of Revelation is Apocalypse. Apocalypse in one sense
means to uncover or reveal hence the name Revelation for that book of the
bible. In the same biblical sense there is another sense of the word apocalypse
which means disaster, disaster of cosmic proportions- dislocation of heavenly
bodies etc. There is yet another meaning of the word apocalypse which means the
part of the new testament of the Christian bible spanning Acts of the Apostles
to Revelations.
In the disaster sense of the word
apocalypse, the end result of the disaster is the end of the world. Even
apocalypse in the sense of revelation is meant to reveal or uncover events
leading to the end of the world or civilization as we know it, characterized by
cataclysms. At least as believed and projected by Christianity; so it may be looked
at as a matter of faith.
This post is going to focus on
apocalypse in the sense of global disaster leading to the end of the world or the
cracking and transition from our current civilization. There are many ways
widespread global disaster can rock our world. It could be a third world war
(WW III). It could be prophecy fulfilled. It could be the sixth extinction. It
could be anthropogenic climate change. However you look at it, trends show that
our civilization is in the throes of a transition to an era yet largely unknown.
I now narrow in on climate change. The heading means climate change as the
causative factor of apocalypse.
So as planet Earth is heading towards
a terminal calamity per anthropogenic climate change, how do you take cover and
how is the terminal calamity averted?
This is what the moneyed of New York
and Silicon Valley, for example, are doing. They are buying landed estates and
building bunkers where they hope to hide when push comes to shove. They have
realized that current trends portend an apocalypse hence the prophylaxis. Indeed,
even now, they go to these “hideouts” (landed estates) from time to time to
take in of what the relatively unpolluted natural environment there gives them.
But can these hideouts save them when climate change apocalypse
takes a full grip of this cracking civilization? Of course they cannot be
saved. The reason is that climate change apocalypse is meant to go the whole
hog to bring an end to our civilization or age.
Yet there is a way out. It is a
matter of cause and effect. If we can find the cause, we should be able to find
the solution. We as earthlings know the cause, even if only majority of
earthlings. Activities
of earthlings are the cause of the ongoing climate change which portends to be
apocalyptic, hence the term anthropogenic climate change. We are emitting too
much greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
The solution is to control the emission of such gases into the
atmosphere. It must start with a change in attitude. The change in attitude
must be reflected in a sustainable way in ideation through research,
engineering, experiment, test trial, mass production, end-user consumption to monitoring
and evaluation.
If we should be able to apply ourselves practically in that
direction, as is being done by some in a limited way albeit, we should be able
to save ourselves from and avert climate change apocalypse resulting in a sustainable
clean and balanced natural environment. Hiding in landed properties and
bunkers is not the way out, ultimately, global warming is affecting the natural
environment as a whole.
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