All I can say is that people should go on NASA's website and search this Mayan thing to see that it is not true.

The Mayans didn't account for leap day, do 2012 was 6 or 7 years ago according to their calendar. Also, the magnetic poles of the Earth switch quite often, in geologic time. Also, solar storms happen all the time, and would have to be way bigger than the Sun is currently capable of to destroy the Earth. Also, we are already part of the Milky Way, always have been.

Natural disasters and global warming are an issue but I don't think this is the last month we'll ever have.

I remember reading a New Age book written in the early 1980's about the end of the Mayan calendar. It was still calling the end of it "The End of An Age", and was actually about a more subtle evolution of awareness that was to start from then on.

And, in all honesty, it IS happening. The materialism, blissful ignorance, and "Me First" of the past century isn't seducing the younger generation as much as the old order (politics, advertising, etc) wants. The emptiness of acquisition is being questioned, and people are actually asking questions of what they're really doing here. This is why there is actual outrage over the "business as usual" antics of those in wealth and power. We're in the transition period - people are waking up and not liking what's going on. Next step: realizing that we're not helpless and we can change things ourselves. This is beyond the stuff of the 1960's - this is bigger.

(Damn, that sounded so New Age-y.)

Well if all that stuff is true, then if it happens it happens. Better to keep on doing what you're doing so you don't waste time panicking or something like that.