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Waiting for the End of the World... Right Now in the Anthropocene Epoch

The future is bleak my friends... In case you were not already aware, even though we all know that each and everyone one of us has a very limited time span here in this life on earth, so too does humanity. Life — our very existence — is something we all like to take for granted as a species, but I would simply like to put some perspective on things. If you are able to read this article, you must therefore also be a primate — it almost goes without saying. I say almost because there are a good number of unscientifically-minded people who would argue against evolution, against science, and even against all of the archaeological and anthropological evidence that shows that we are primates. It is estimated that there is an astonishing 38% of people in the United States — lesser in Canada, 21% — who believe that God recently put us on earth some time in the past 10,000, however — thankfully! — the majority of us know better (1). My intention is certainly not to bust your