Yesterday at 11.11, GMT, nothing happened. What did you expect? A mighty asteroid, a megatsunami, or perhaps a super-eruption? Get outa here. These are the stuff of life for the documentary channels, and they do actually happen- just not on cue because a few relentlessly persistent "doomsday preppers" say so.
I am now old enough to remember a number of these End-of-the-world predictions. The first was in 1975, when the Jehovah's Witnesses insisted the great Cleansing was imminent. It wasn't. The Millennium became a focal point for many doom-sayers; including as notable a luminary as Isaac Newton, who was apparently convinced it would mark the coming of Armageddon. Oops! Wrong again.
The end of the world won't come trumpeted. It will creep up on us without anyone noticing, and it will be our fault because we didn't take sufficient care of the spaceship we call home. Please God we can recognise the danger before the worst happens. Meanwhile, as we all still appear to be here, Happy Xmas!
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