Nihilism

Nihilism seems to be the response inspired by the environment we life in today.
We life in an age, in which we hear over and over again that the world is slowly or maybe fast nearing its end. We learn that our environment is being abused by us and that is destroying the world as we know it. We create new threats we none are are and perceive the world as hostile. Why do we understand or perceive our environment in such a way that we see those things? In the 50's and 60's people already believed that the world would end in several decades. Interestingly enough we seem to want the world end around ourself, further we believe more and more in the end of our lives instead of an afterlife. Nihilism, the believe that we die and that then we turn into nothing else but compost, seems to have won over all the other believes. The question is, why did that happen? Are predisposed to nihilism?
Our media and similar are all seemingly supplying us with negative news, why? Because it sells better then good news, why is that the case one would wonder why do humans want to witness brutality or know that the world is going to end sooner then in several billion years when the sun expands. It seems odd, yet if we truly are predisposed to nihilism would not the most logical explanation be that we want to be reassured, that we need to proof to ourself over and over again that we and the world that we life in is going to end? And if that is going to be soon then we can grasp it more easily, and it is actually going to impact onto our lives.

P.S. I thought that something such as this post would be the most appropriate as the number 100 post.