"Hurtling Toward Oblivion"

The end of the world. When will it arrive how will it arrive is it upon us? These are questions that every generation has asked. In Richard Swenson's "Hurtling Toward Oblivion" he makes a compelling arguments for the answers to these questions.
Swenson’s focuses on the concepts of profusion and progress and the relationship between the two. He shows progress leads to profusion, and the expediential rate at which they grow. The expediential rate is the basis of his thesis and the fact that when dealing with expediential equations a lot happens very fast as the graph moves in accordance with time. Compared to history progress is happening and growing at such an outstanding rate one is obligated to see that we are quite far along on this expediential graph, Swenson being convinced near the end of what the world system can take, for there is a limit this is undisputed. To illustrate the magnitude of exponential change he uses the following example;
“The Pacific Ocean spans sixty-four million square miles and, on average, is 14,000 feet deep. If all the continents of the world were placed inside it, there would still be room for another Asia…. Assume that the Pacific dried up and it was our job to fill it. If we began with a single drop of water and continued doubling the amount…..”
It would take only eighty doublings to fill it, and at the seventieth doubling it is only 0.1% full. This type of exponentially is found in such things as life expectancy, health care expenditures (U.S.), Gross Domestic Product (U.S.), air miles traveled and world population just to name a few of the examples given in the book. Going with the example the numbers show we must be nearing the eightieth doubling. Regional break downs of systems only support the numbers, widespread disease, genocide, economical crises political turmoil show what happens when the profusion expands past what the system can handle.
The reason for progress and profusion causing such negative results is simple; nothing is ever perfect in this world. Progress is a double edge sword that most fail to recognize as such. Progress has provided an environment for bad things to occur, with more progress it gets easier and easier for the bad things to happen. Take an evil dictator, with a nod of his head he can launch a nuclear weapon killing many people had this dictator been in control 1000 years earlier he would only have a spear in his hand, progress has allowed an environment where evil is easier. Another example of this is the advancement of medicine. It allows for human who would die to live and pass on a mutated gene. I would put money on the fact that cancer was cause by humans going against natural selection and using our brain to our “advantage”.
The problem is that progress cannot be reversed or stopped it is a natural thing that will not end until the world is over. So what do we do? I say enjoy the present and find the truth about what happens after death because there is only imperfection and suffering here. Not to say that there is no love, happiness or joy there is but it doesn’t come without hate, pain and suffering. I am a planer so I want to make the best plan and it seems a waste of time to invest to much in this world because it’s just about to crash and burn.