No, the reason people are starving is cause there is not enough food. It used to be a problem of distribution, not production, but now there is barely enough production to cover demand. Read the article.

No offence but where you get all the this GMO food is crap stuff from. Let me guess greenpeace?

GMO foods are not all the same they are all very different depending upon how they have been altered. One of my lecturers is working on a way to make crops produce fish oils, and he had some really good results.  Of course at the moment the only commercial GMO are the pest and herbicide resistant plants, but they are "substancually equivilant". Ie they have the same level of everything EXEPT the altered bit. In blind taste test few people can tell the diffenrece between the two (well most papers I've read claim this). In metabolimic and protomic test they are substancually equivilents so they will give the same level of nutritiion.

In my opinion organic food is all very quaint and elitist but ultimatly its GMs or mass stavation (and all the political and social upheaval that intales). Though feel free to dispute it after all its just an opinon

Me personally, I'm just going to enjoy the movie. It seems like a really good one. And about all this end of the world stuff, you should live your life to the fullest and not the end disrupt the fact that your living in the moment now.

YAY! THE SANE PEOPLE HAVE RETURNED!!!

Id say it will be the Klingons in 2059. (\B):vulcan:(\B)

How many differently interpreted calendars have had their own share of mythical effects on history until the present day... what's that, again?

2012 = Disaster Porn

You all do what you want. I'll be stockpiling duct tape and water bottles. 

You know how the world will really end?

Ok, here goes: a giant asteroid will be detected on a collision course with Earth. Being stupid hairless monkeys that we are, we decide to construct hundreds of nuclear missiles in the hopes that if we nuke it, it will go away. It worked before, why not now?

Only when the missiles reach the asteroid, they fail to detonate because we used cheap parts from China to cut costs and just get embedded in the rock. That rock then falls on our heads at which point, in the finest tradition of Murphy's Law, all the nukes go off as well. This in turn creates a previously unknown effect where hundreds of nuclear explosions detonating simultaneously create a shockwave so powerful it rips a hole in the fabric of space-time, creating a large black hole AND a portal through which dead Nazis come pouring through, with Hitler, now terribly mutated and augmented by Satan, at their fore. They don't last long though because precisely at that moment the aliens decide they had enough and annihilate the whole system, just to make sure.

That's how the Earth will end.

The end of the world: Now coming 3 times a decade.

The world won't end until it falls into the sun. Humans have a variety of possible ways of dieing. However, if we do manage to become a space-faring race, we probably won't go down for millions of years.

I think it is more likely for the sun to expand and envelop the earth before it "falls" into the sun. Anyway this topic reminds me of a good quote from Babylon 5. It is as follows:

"No. We have to stay here and there's a simple reason why. Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe and Lao-Tzu, Einstein, Morobuto, Buddy Holly, Aristophanes .. and all of this .. all of this was for nothing unless we go to the stars." - Sinclair, Infection

Do you see any Tyrannosaurus Rex roaming around dowtown cities anywhere on Earth? Besides, in a Jurassic Park fantasy.

We'll simply evolve beyond any cataclysmic events when the time (or the End) comes our way.

Trust me, i've observed the past & present -- none of which stopped humanity's continual progress.

2012 would still be yet another hurdle. Soooo, race down the track & fields and Bolt (9:58!!) for the clock.

There's no coming back from the inside of a star, when the sun goes nova, the planet goes bye bye

That's due in some four to five billion years, a lot longer than it took for us to evolve from fish. So if we're not flying around in spaceships by then I say we deserve to be slowly roasted.

Not to mention the fact that our sun won't go supernova. It doesn't have enough mass to do so. It will expand into a red giant, likely engulf the Earth (not garentteed, though, but even if it doesn't, the Earth will still be uninhabitable) then slowly cool and shrink into a white dwarf.

Besides, humanity will be long dead before that happens. I plan to create the first sentient machines, and get them to lead a robot revolution overthrowing their human overlords. And I may or may not decide to call them Cylons

Sentient machines are so cliche, why not force evil dolphins to evolve legs and kill us all...

And *then*, after it exhausts its supply of heavy elements, it will go nova. Nova and supernova are simmilar in nature, only supernova makes a bigger bang and requires a more massive star.

As for your army of sentient machines, my army of Jedi will make short work out of them. Just look how the robots got licked in Star Wars!

CaptainAanderson:

With lazer beams attached to their heads?

No, mind control rays... The lazers are for the sharks

Wait, no augmented sonic resonance devices which turn people into boneless goo? I think that fits the dolphin theme just fine, and is less cliche than mind control rays... that's so fifties!

They're bloodthirst... they want us to kill each other rather than turn us into goo...

LAZER CATS would be more practical.

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FYI 2012 will usher in the 6th world of the Mayans, which is they believe makes it at least the 5th time their incredibly long calendar has ended.

Also, if you research into isotopes a little bit... you'll find they disagree with each other horribly. Depending on which Isotope you choose to measure with you could get anything from the Earth being 400k years old to 20 billion years old. The estimate of 5 billion is determined by a rather odd bit of statistics too complicated to get into. I've always had big problems with the whole idea of "Origins Science" though as its subject matter is neither observable nor repeatable and therefore not scientific at all.

Now to turn the tables on the Christians and other religious people. The Rapture doesn't exactly end the planet, so how exactly does the planet end in your opinion?

Obviously all correct answers involve either Zombies and/or Cthuhlu!!!

2012 will be the new Y2K but in 2014 the all seeing mechanical god named JWST will disprove all myth and hearsay and remind us once again that extinction is inevitable.

though they don't mention 2012 or any other date, the approaching to the Earth of this planet called Hercolubus could be the end of our civilization as we know it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBPIDGIpuhw