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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMScott" data-source="post: 1429792" data-attributes="member: 11734">If you're having magic/psionics re-emerge, why not just link the explanation to that? The return of psionics drives 99% of the people suicidally insane, or some big magical event kills a huge number of people.But if you really want a "natural" explanation:- bioweapons getting out of control works. A strain of ebola that spreads as easily as the flu gets loose at JFK airport just before Christmas, that sort of thing.- climate change might work. The worst-case global warming scenarios have the gulf stream changing course or stopping for a while, which would likely trigger an ice age in North America and Europe. Panic migration south, critical food shortages, sudden overpopulation in equatorial zones, not enough fresh water, etc.- visitor from space. Drop a big enough comet/meteor/whatever in the middle of the Pacific, and you can wipe almost everybody.The real problem is making sure some people survive. Maybe have an underground bunker with some kind of suspended animation technology, a la Aftermath.</blockquote>