Don’t look upIt won’t help. You can’t get out of the way, youcan’t dig a hole deep enough to hide. The end is coming, andthere’s nothing you can do about why read this book?Because youcan’t look away when not just the religious fanatics are sayingwe’re all going to be destroyed but the scientists are in on theact too. Here’s what they’re saying:We’re a million years over duefor a mass sun at radiation minimum is acting much worse than atsolar maximum, and one misdirected spewing of plasma could fry usin an magnetic field—which shields us from harmful radiation—isdeveloping a mysterious solar system is entering an energeticallyhostile part of the Yellowstone supervolcano is getting ready toblow, and if it does, we can look forward to nuclear winter and 90percent Maya, the world’s greatest timekeepers ever, say it’s allgoing to stop on December 21, , see? There’s nothing you can do,but you might as well sit back and enjoy the show. You’ll get agood ’s why you should read this Reader,If there were a chance thatopening this book could set off a chain of events that would leadto Apocalypse, to the end of Life as we know it, would you betempted? Finger poised uncertainly above the flashing red button?How about if the Apocalypse promised to result in a new age ofenlightenment, a Heaven on Earth like never before? Personally,I’ll take the security of my cozy life over a chance at nirvana.But status quo may no longer be an option, for any of us. This bookwill convince you that there is a nonnegligible chance that theyear 2012 will be more tumultuous, catastrophic, and, quitepossibly, revelatory, than any other year in human history. Partsof this book are best read with a bowl of popcorn: looking into thejaws of a great white shark in search of the meaning of death;touring a picturesque Guatemalan town with Mayan shaman just weeksbefore it is utterly destroyed. Other sections go better with atra
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