This is not news to Christians. The bible talks about the conditions during the end times:
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." - II Timothy 3:1-5
"And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
All these are the beginning of sorrows.
Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved." Matthew 24:6-13
The world will get worse before it gets better.
Don't get me wrong, though. I'm not one of those Christians that invites this to come just so it will quicken the return of Christ. I have a wife and kids. My children will live on and inherit the world we are leaving them . Do you think I would want them to be subjected to the horrors to come?
But then you ask, why would God allow the earth to be degraded so low. My guess is that He is patient for people to repent and turn to Him, so much so that He will wait until the very last moment to act so that as many as would come, will come to Him. In the meantime, the evil in the world continues to get worse.
I'd have to disagree with wil on this. The acceptance of evil into the mainstream conscience is becoming more and more prevalent. I have to be very particular with what my kids watch on TV nowadays. Daniel describes the end times as a period where knowledge will increase:
"But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased." - Daniel 12:4
I'm all for learning, but with good knowledge, also come bad knowledge. The Internet is an environment for such. It is a dangeous tool. With it is the potential to learn evil, as well as good. One has to be careful of what one comes across.