Guido Reni Angel of the AnnunciationGuido Reni The Penitent MagdaleneEdward Hopper Summertime
How many ways can the world end? We can think of at least five.
But before we get into detail, let's dismiss two things that won't cause the demise of the planet.
Global warming is the second half of an interglacial period, it's a pretty safe bet that the glaciers will indeed advance again within the next 10,000 years.
But at any given time, four of the five following scenarios really could cause the end of life on Earth — and the fifth almost certainly will.bad for people who live in low-lying coastal areas and at the edges of deserts, but the truth is that Earth been much warmer throughout most of the past 500 million years, and life did just fine.On the other side of things, a new ice age would end most human habitation of Canada, northern Europe, the northern U.S. and Russia, but the tropics would stay about the same — and there'd be a lot more land to go around in south Florida as sea levels dropped.Since we're currently in
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