Beyond Apocalypse: What next?

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2012 it is! Just a month left. Ever wondered if actually there is an apocalypse, what would happen? I was just thinking about the possibilities. Actually a little creepy to think about it, but it's a different experience. Takes you straight to the ground!

We do not know what is going to happen, weather the oceans are going to take over like the movie 2012, or everything is going to freeze like in the movie The Day After Tomorrow. We can also consider an all-volcano event, where the earth just erupts, from all sides, to let the heat out, or even an all-earthquake event, where we just have quakes or probably just a mixture of all the above. Seriously, the possibilities are endless. The humans have harmed the environment in so many different ways, we cannot imagine how nature plans to revert it and get back to normal.

So, whatever way the nature chooses, the real question is: Is it possible that no one, literally no human being survives? Well the probabilities are far too low of that happening. A lot of people may actually get through, somehow! Now when I say a lot of people, it is like saying .2 to .5% of the world population. This seems like a fair estimate. 

Let's say these people make it to the new world. What next? What would they do? How would they start a new life? Well, the questions are not at all rhetorical but filled with genuine concern. These people share great responsibility in that it would be these very people who lay down the foundations for the coming generations. It would be these people who have the power to choose right and wrong. Their decisions would greatly influence the lives of the next generations. The new generations would not have the slightest idea of how the world looked just a few years back. No body knows if there would be experts among these survivors. All we can assume that it would be a few common men and women who have felt and tasted the real world. It would be these select few people who share the responsibility of showing our next generations, at least a blurred, if not the exact picture of the actual world.

In spite of all the harm that the human race has done to the environment, we have made a great deal of progress in terms of science, technology, philosophy and various other fields. This must not be wasted! The coming generations should build up starting from where the past generation left off, rather than starting from scratch and reinventing the wheel. Some way has to be derived to preserve this information and knowledge. Unless this is done, we humans, would be straight back to the stone age, carving caves and lighting fires with flint-stones. The knowledge has to be preserved at any cost!

Of course there will be difficulties and challenges, and the early ages might actually have to go through a pseudo-stone age. The point is to preserve the knowledge, so that once the basic needs are taken care of, people could start on a known road rather than wandering about for solutions to each and every problem they encounter. Their predecessors spent days and nights working on techniques and developed concrete things that worked. The judgement day may destroy whatever has been developed but it must not be able to destroy the very research and thinking, that has gone into it.

Slowly and gradually, these people could also try to right the wrongs that their predecessors had committed. With the right knowledge and a few early precautions, probably we could last a few more centuries before the next apocalypse!

Comments, anyone?