That is quite sad, my dear chum. Please stay on topic, and careful of bedsores.
Just to be on topic, why were certain members of the public saying the world was going to end in the year 2000? Me just forgetfullness :P

@Joe the Intern: 'tis cool. Upon your clarification of statements, I find I agree with what you're saying. Mostly. I'll still think the bad outweighs the good until all those well-meaning people actually do something, as actions are the only things that can actually stop what we're doing.

I do think we're destroying the planet, and I don't think its inevitable. I'm not suggesting we give up the things we're accustomed too, I'm just saying we should be looking for ways to have those things that aren't self-destructive. I think that's what everyone is saying.

Oh, and I think there were some religous reasons why people thought the world would end in 2000. Not being religous myself, I can only confidently vouch for fear of Y2k. Computers had not been programmed to understand a date with a 2xxx. The theory was that this would cause all computers everywhere to crash, resulting in the launching of every nuclear bomb on the planet. Or something equally dramatic. Anyway, that was one reason. But I'm almost certain there were others of biblical import.

I'm guessing that it would be very unlikely. How would we know where to go? We could be traveling around our own Galaxy for millions of years before we found anything.

The world was supposed to end thousands of years ago. The World was supposed to end hundreds of years ago. The world was supposed to end 5 years ago. Whatever.

Yeah I know, I'm just trying to stupid, like my old natu-raaahl self.
Who would honestly believe the y2k bug... I mean, "Ooh, ooh, my computer can't display the numbers '2' and '0'x4! AAAARGH!!!!".

20000? Now that might be a problem!