Egypt, the debt crisis, rising food prices, unemployment, immigration - I think on the scale of one day we are about at 1 second to midnight before it all descends into chaos. Let’s face it things aren’t looking good so perhaps they are right about 2012. I think the beautiful song by Oleta Adams sums it perfectly...here’s a bit of it...

We can travel to the planets
Drive a mile through solid granite
Thrive in all extremes of weather
But we cannot live together

We have pondered our existence
Tracked the comets in the distance
But we're overcome with blindness
By an act of human kindness

We have ventured where
None have gone before us
But in matters fundamental
We are patterned on an old design
Welcome back Tyrannosaurus
Evolution is a state of mind