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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 6022545" data-attributes="member: 8835">The concept of other apocalypses is interesting.Consider these end of world as we know it:disease: wipes out most of the population (humans, animals?) so there are not enough people to perform all of the societal functions (who runs the electric company, removes garbage, drives delivery trucks)communication: solar flare wipes out satellite/radio communications, perhaps ongoing interference.  The internet is fragmented, no TV/radio news, no phones.  people are isolated.transportation: gasoline/oil runs out so the bulk of all transportation is shut down.  No cars, trucks, trains, airplanes are running because everybody lacks the fuel.  Riots over fuel prices cause social disorder initially.  Folks with horses/oxen start hauling supplies, slowly.  Alternative fuel sources are invested in, but adoption is slow because the materials and end products can't quickly be delivered.society: social divisions get more extreme and folks get into civil and religious war.  Since groups are interspersed with each other, this means in-fighting with neighbors, rather than at discrete borders.  This causes cities to become battlegrounds within themselves.machine intelligence: Nobody welcomed the new robot masters, and they let their displeasure be felt.  W've got enough science fiction examples of what this is like.climate change: global warming kicks in, and hot places get hotter and become dry deserts.  People move out of the southern states to the Northern states.  The amount of arable land is diminished, while the number of people trying to squish into Canada increases.Nuclear Winter: the commies (do they exist anymore) finally go too far, and nuclear war escalates to everybody having to duck and cover.Alien Invasion: the aliens want our resources, and to minimize our interference, they decimate as many cities from orbit as they canZombies: somebody used Worcestshire sauce as an embalming agent, and the dead have risen.  Bruce Campbell is nowhere to be seen.Natural Mega Disaster: a volcano in Ohio erupts, destroying the mid west.  It causes a tsunami to radiate out in both oceans to wipe out most of Europe and Asia's coastal nations.Asteroid: a big rock in space hits us.  It destroys a bunch of stuff, fills the sky with dust, makes it cold and a new ice age arrives.  Also, lots of humans die because food production is interrupted.Religious Event: some religion turns out to be correct, and every non-member doesn't benefit from it.  Probably violently.  Don't assume it is your chosen religion, it'll be something obscure with a very small membership that nobody would have guessed.</blockquote>

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