I hope so as well, but the chances don't look good. I'm guessing we'll go the way of the dinosaurs -- literally.
The India Daily had a good article the other day about how an asteroid that is on a stealth path may hit the earth on December 21, 2012. http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/15008.asp
So here is final plan, an asteroid is going to hit somewhere in USA in 2012, (Astronomically this is a very important year) which will make life in USA very difficult (In five years, some asteroid can surprise nasa for sure, nasa should setup a new team to try to predict the asteriod and hit location, so that all people can be shifted to safe location) ) USA will be busy getting out of this environmental mess, in the mean time middle east (no longer afraid of USA) will launch attack against israel, europe will try to interfere and third world war would start, USA not being able to interfere much the war would be prolonged and there will be no clear winner. Every country involved in the war will be hit by few nuclear missiles. So we need to find some countries which is least likely to take part in third world war, and take refuge in such countries
Dont worry, the world will end this coming winter. Muuhahaha. The first time i heard that the earth would be blown to peices, burn in hell or what ever was when I was 20 and we where heading for the big 2000. Since then Ive heard it several times. "2003 thats when the earth goes down". "2005 is when world war 3 begins" bla bla lalala.
I think world will face far worse conditions before it ends, and right now things are not that bad.....they it will get worse before it ends