It seems lately, there are some young JWs that have decided the 'earthly' prospect is not for them. Well, after reviewing what the 'earthly' survivors of armageddon have to look forward to, I can see why they'd rather go to heaven:
(1) Removing and disposing of the wreckage. The survivors of Armageddon will not have power tools at their disposal, for it is unreasonable to expect that in the midst of such destruction there will be any kind of power source to operate these devices. Clearing this wreckage away will require bulldozers, wrecking cranes, jackhammers, and other fuel-powered vehicles and tools, but it is likewise unreasonable to expect that the supply network to safely provide such fuel to the millions of worksites around the world will be intact. Parts will need to be manufactured to repair damaged vehicles, and electricity and tools will be needed to install these parts. And where will the unburnable plastic and metal wreckage go - into the ocean? What is worse, chemical and nuclear waste will have to be safely handled and disposed of. Already the task is looking quite complicated.
(2) Handling and disposing of corpses. An unpleasant task. The WTS teaches that the only survivors of Armageddon will initially be composed of the Jehovah's Witnesses. However, the current world population numbers into the billions. Thus, there will be mountains of billions of dead people littering the landscape. The corpses would likewise rot within a few short days, and the stench would become intolerable. Without proper burial or cremation of these bodies, disease would run rampant, with rat and maggot infestation becoming commonplace. The WTS teaches that the Witnesses will take care of this gruesome task. (See You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, page 159, paragraph 6.)
(3) Finding food and fresh water to survive. The WTS shows that people will be farming and eating after Armageddon is over. (See the picture in the book Knowledge that Leads to Everlasting Life, p. 188,189 for but one example.) The question is: do they need to do this to survive? Apparently the WTS feels that they do, for they have not yet inherited "perfect" bodies. There would be no point in going to the trouble of farming, harvesting, and eating if it was unnecessary for survival! This being the case, just where will they get this food and fresh water? The WTS frequently quotes from such Scriptures as Isa 25:6 to demonstrate that food will somehow become plentiful after Armageddon is over. Just how this will occur, however, is not discussed.
(4) Cultivating, irrigating and farming. It is not unreasonable to comment that many Jehovah's Witnesses alive today have never had the experience of actually gathering or hunting for their own food, much less farming on a scale large enough to support a community. In present-day terms, this task alone would require nearly an entire day's work on an ongoing basis for most of the Witnesses, and it is doubtful that they could do it in only a few days' training with no previous experience. Perhaps the 144,000 in heaven might help them or give them instruction? That is possible. In this case, at present calculations there would be one member of the "anointed" in heaven per 37 survivors on earth (the size of a large classroom) to teach them all the basics of finding and gathering food, preparing and storing it safely so as to avoid spoilage or contamination from bacterial viruses (there will be no refrigerators, microwave ovens, or anything of the sort to help out here!), tilling the soil, developing an irrigation system and cultivating a farm to provide for the next year's harvest, and so on. Perhaps we shall need to call in the angels, too...?
Yep, 1000 years of hard labor... JOY.