The end of the world is nigh?

An article from the Guardian on the state of the world ... is everything really getting worse?

I like this comment in the article:


"The final item on the news that evening couldn't have been more symbolic if it had shown the ravens leaving the Tower of London. Fidel Castro, the one constant in all our lives, was on the blink. That's when I reached for the phone and -
"We're fucked."
There is a time when the time for analysis has passed.
"We are."

... and the conclusion:

"You reassure yourself that, as in all cycles of history, this one will come to an end, too. Then you remember that the man in charge of writing the ending is George Bush, and you have to start again."