Author picks Central KY. town to survive 'Apocalypse 2012'
By Amy Wilson Herald-Leader Staff Writer

This is not a new theory, but there is a new book out that backs the premise with all kinds of sleep-killing stuff like that we're a million years overdue for a good mass extinction. And that the Earth's magnetic field is developing a crack. And that the Yellowstone supervolcano is about to catapult those tiny 10 percent of us who survive it into nuclear winter.

A planet holds its collective breath. But wait, the author thinks there might be one place on Earth that can just survive the whole shebang intact.

Berea.

Let the real estate land rush begin. Let the good times roll. Let us laugh at the Mayans.

Now let's see what this man's got by way of explanation.

Lawrence Joseph, author of Apocalypse 2012: A Scientific Investigation Into Civilization's End, says that Jerusalem, Angkor Wat, the Vatican and Mecca might be natural choices but, no, "of all the sacred sites in the world, none embodies the sacred Mayan values of service to humanity and Mother Earth like the town of Berea, Kentucky."

Joseph goes on for a page about the origin of the town's name (Acts 17:10-14), about the fabulousness of Berea College and its Ecovillage and about the whole region's remarkable seismic and volcanic stability.