Survival bunker sales are up 1000%. So many people believe the end of the world is coming in 2012 that sales of bunkers and underground living quarters are selling like hotcakes. Mostly a result of the quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Japan and greedy contractors willing to cash in on irrational fears.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/22/real_estate/doomsday_bunkers/index....

Trying to bring reason and rationality to the world can frustrating sometimes. There is some hope; Amazon.com lists 2012 doomsday books under religion and/or science fiction and  popular, credible scientific websites are making extra effort to calm people down and debunk the whole myth:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091106-2012-end-of-...

Spread this link around, clearly people need it.