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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joker" data-source="post: 5560814" data-attributes="member: 826">It's hard to determine how people will react in such a situation.It's not just knowing you are going to die.  It's knowing that there will be nothing like you existing in the near future.Because imminent doom is still a bit off most of the social controls will still be in place, i.e. police, riot control, militaries etc.So although widespread chaos may occur, it will likely still be contained, with military and thus lethal intervention if needed.What's more concerning is widespread depression.  Knowing your genes are not going to continue can have a detrimental effect on your mental well being. It is because of this and because the cataclysm is going to happen a few decades from now that there will likely be a concerted effort to save as many people as possible in order to preserve our species.  Even though the powers that be may know programs such as cloning, iron wombs or a mass exodus are doomed to fail, setting up constructs that will give people hope does a lot towards placating the masses.Of course, all of this is entirely speculative and the opinion of someone who isn't well versed in the subject of human behavior during apocalypses.</blockquote>