If we just HAD to have an apocalypse which would you prefer it to be?

[Drewtate]

A. Pandemic

B. Asteroid

C. Nuclear War

D. Volcanic Apocalypse

E. New Ice Age

F. Global Birthrate Apocalypse

G. WOKE APOCALYPSE

Pandemic

Asteroid

Nuclear war

Volcanic apocalypse

New Ice Age

Global desertification

Global birth rate apocalypse

[SugarSugarplum]

I struggle with this, because many of these I might possibly survive, only to have to live in a harsh, ruined world with a bleak future.
So I shift between wanting the ones that offer a quick, immediate death, and the milder ones I would probably survive.

[Drewtate]

I agree. Like that movie the road. Where during a nuclear winter all animal & plant life has died and there's nothing to eat. The remaining survivors struggle to scratch out a living eating whatever remaining tinned food they can find and fresh water to drink, turning to cannibalism and tumours and cancers caused by the radiation

[front2back]

Birthrate collapse is already happening worldwide so you might as well prepare for that one lmao, at least it's the easiest one to actually survive just not enjoying the luxuries we have today.

If you want a good luck on ways to deal with that as well as climate crisises, I would suggest the book Can Life Prevail? by Pentti Linkola.

[paledreams]

Nuclear war seems like at least for the entertainment of the fictional question posed: at least it would be swift : I for one would dread being a survivor after a nuclear war, imagine how desolate and toxic everything would be, what an unpleasant place if anyone survived at all that hypothetical film movie lol 😆😆😆😆

[paledreams]

Yet I still voted nuclear war lol because at least it would be swift and I'd likely be asleep in my timezone hopefully if such horror ever was ever true in real life - thankfully that's all Hollywood nonsense aka fiction and always will be 😃

[Simslover92]

I think I can try to survive the New Ice Age out of all of those.

[Drewtate]

Yeah just head south

[Simslover92]

Yep pretty much

[paledreams]

@Simslover92 the irony is with your hypothetical last amount of warmth and electricity, your on your dusty DVD player 📀 or your ice sickles Television and start watching The Day After Tomorrow 2004 movie hahahaha 😂😆 and comment to yourself "does anyone see the irony of this, fly on the wall" 🪲🐛

[paledreams]

The Day After Tomorrow 2004 movie irony hahahaha ❄️🌨️ 📀 📺

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

New Ice Age

[thearchjoker]

so long as you can start a society disconnected to the rest you could save part of civilisation to start a new in the case of declining birthrate. You can't save everything because modem tech is too specialized but you could probably save a lot of tech from the early to mid 20th century without too much effort so long as you use modern tech to start building the industrial tool necessary to build and maintain it.

[Drewtate]

Depending on population size you'd probably end up at a level of technology between the bronze/iron age or the 17-18th century.

[luvstoned4him]

I don't even know anymore , this world has gone to shit

It definitely needs purging

The ultimate I want is for Christ to return

[BCRanger10]

We're already in the middle of F and G. Other than that though, I'd say zombies.

[beefcakebradybatson]

Woke, because it would get rid of bigotry of all stripes !!!

[Drewtate]

... by creating more bigotry

[beefcakebradybatson]

Against reactionary, hateful POS, that is.

[Drewtate]

Math is reactionary. Visiting the gym regularly makes you a white supremacist? Milk is white supremacy?

[ManOnFire]

I voted global birthrate. As long as everything is still here that's fine for me, just less people around.

[Drewtate]

Means you can't retire

[ManOnFire]

With nobody else around will it really matter?

[Drewtate]

Yes. Who will look after you?

[ManOnFire]

I guess I'll just pass on when the time comes.

[Sevenpointfive]

i want to live. i just don't want everyone else to. (essential workers that i need can stay. gotta have taco bell) so pandemic for me

[OtterMan68]

get it all over with at once. Kill all humans!

[Dongie]

Pick your poison.

I can't. It will be the pandemic, asteroid and nuclear exchange.

[captain_voidwalker]

Can't we just get a good ole fashioned alien invasion.

[DrPepper12]

I think a pandemic would be perfect to cull this planet of a few billion unnecessary people while also giving the best chance to start over again.

[Drewtate]

You realise what starting over again would look like? Covid was the greatest transfer of wealth in history. You'd end up being owned

[DrPepper12]

Greatest transfer well so far... When the boomers finally begin dying in significant numbers that's going to be about transfer for the ages!

I don't think I would end up being owned

[Drewtate]

Boomers are finding themselves losing their homes due to rising property taxes, their pensions are worth less due to inflation and retirement home costs are eating up any money they have. Still doesn't compare to the global recession or covid.

[Joshydavid25]

The Global birthrate apocalypse because at least that would give us chances to repopulate.. 😏

[exitseven]

An asteroid. it would be quick and greasy

[Drewtate]

Depends how big. Might just be big enough to throw dust up into the atmosphere thar blots out the sun for a decade or two. Something similar happened around the time the western Roman Empire collapsed and the Eastern empire went into decline though it was a volcanic eruption in Iceland not an asteroid. Basically a volcanic winter for a few years where crops didn't grow and there was basically no summer, a pandemic followed and Europe, north Africa and the Middle east suffered a large loss of the population.

[exitseven]

I would want the asteroid to crush the earth I to space dust.

[Zoi1986]

C to be in ground zero or close to it cause it be quick. Being outside that be worst.

[paledreams]

Lots of the options for entertainment for the fictional question, the swift ones at least don't sound so horrifying huh. Like that old saying or movie saying "was swift" or "justice is swift" lol ⚖️ lol

[Dargil]

G. And I'll give my all to mitigate it

[jackieistired]

Asteroid, I want to leave lol

[Sharkstealth]

Asteroid but I wouldn't want to be alive.

[Sharkstealth]

I believe that the end of man again has and always will be man made.

[Snakeyes7]

New Ice age sound the most survivable to me