From Fr. George Rutler at Pewsitter.com:
There is agreement among both kinds of personalities [pessimist and optimist] that the world is going to end.
Grimly or happily, they can cite physicists who expect that our own planet will be finished by the year 500,000,000,000 AD. But it will be too hot to sustain human life within a mere one billion years.
These days, many seem to be pessimists who think that the world will end faster than expected, at least in terms of livable conditions affected by climate change.
Some take this as a new Gospel, and skeptics are treated as heretics facing an opprobrium as harsh as it is capricious and as capricious as it is vicious.
The argument is declared settled, even though no true science is ever settled.
Blithe Spirit 
I recommend Fr. Rutler’s “Cloud of Witnesses — Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive.” From Hildegarde to Bill Buckley. Such a fun read.
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I found that book at half.com (owned by Ebay), for $7 shipped.
Cloud of Witnesses — Dead People I Knew When They Were Alive.
Jim Bowman
http://myjesuitlife.com/
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