One result cut against the old idea that apocalyptic believers simply stop caring about the future.
Instead, people who expected the end soon often supported stronger intervention, especially when they thought human actions were driving it.
That response challenges the simpler story that end-times believers only shrink their time horizon and stop investing in tomorrow.
No. One third WANT the world to end in their lifetime.
Billionaires are doing something called accelerationism. IOW end everything FASTER.
Christians is a death cult and want the RAPTURE.
Trump and Putin are dying soon. Both are sick. They have nothing to lose.
Knew a guy like this ultra die hard right wing nut. He Had nothing to live for except his dogs and said the rapture was going to happen any day now. We’ll its been 20 years you nutter!
If they stop voting for criminals and rapist it will not end.
Fucking dumb asses the world won’t end, just fucking us fuckwit humans making it unhabitable, but the world will keep spinning and life will return in some form.
As Carlin put it, maybe mother nature wanted plastic, so she made people. People made plastic, and now, it’s time to get rid of people. What will remain after all the people are gone? The Earth! Plus plastic!
Survey data from…
…US and Canada
And that reflects the world?
It reflects the current regime in the USA, who just started WW3, to make their apocalypse happen.
So it doesn’t reflect the whole world, but it certainly affects the whole world.
You’re right, they should have included Alaska and Hawaii
To many Americans, pretty much
Nopeee I still think the article is interesting though.
Religion is a hell of a drug
There’s a flaw in the understanding here.
An Apocalypse is, in the minds of the believers, a great thing. It’s not really The End, it’s the end the current “bad world” and the start of a new and better world, even a utopia.
Collapse is not Apocalyptic, even if the collapsing part is shared. Some might argue that collapse of empires in the past was good, and there are valid arguments to be made on that. But that’s not the case now, there is nowhere for people to evacuate to from the collapsing global empire, and the climate getting hot and weird is going make even staying in place a problem. The only good world that follows is the one for unicellular life.
I’m one of those people. However, I hope I’m wrong, and choose to vote (and consume/recycle) as if I am.
i’m going to die (again) at some point in my lifetime. don’t know if i’ll survive it, but it’ll happen.
I didn’t used to think that, but now I think you’d be delusional to not at least think it’s possible
Same!
Only?
I should be so fucking lucky.
…in the USA.
