which apocalyptic senario do you fear the worst?

[Slamz]

I grew up in a house that had zero electricity. We had propane appliances and a wood stove for heat. I shit in an outhouse until I was 7. It certainly wasn't the end of the world. That was only as far back as the 1960's.

Don't forget that up until the 80's if you didn't live in urban area's we didn't rely on electricity near as much as we do now.

We're so reliant on it now that it would be a serious nightmare. How many people in the city have any means of cooking food without electricity? I bet even most restaurants would be unable to cook. Nobody in the city has wood stoves, and the gas furnaces weren't meant to operate without blowers. More rural settings could probably get by but cities would be a catastrophe. I imagine we'd have to bring in the army or something to supply prepared food to tens of millions of people until the infrastructure could adapt or get repaired.

Interesting thing about this scenario is there was that solar flare that blacked out Canada some time ago. I don't know what the probabilities are like, but one good solar flare could potentially knock out the whole power grid to the entire planet and zap all the satellites to boot.

Not sure what it takes to fix something like that. I should go look up the Canada event to see what, exactly, the flares did (I'm guessing it's like a massive power surge through the system and probably fries/blows up transformers and so forth?)



Anyway, I vote that as "most likely" natural disaster scenario. Earthquakes and tsunami are bad but localized. Unless Yellowstone blows up into a new supervolcano or something (which is, apparently, about due... like it blew up 1.2 million years ago and 600,000 years ago, or something like that).

Disease would be scary but I feel like that's less likely. Nature has tried to kill off the planet enough times that we're probably pretty resistant by now. Though maybe some genetically altered virus could get out and kill lots of people.

Massive meteor strike could be bad but we've been tracking everything big enough to see, so that doesn't seem overly likely anytime soon.


Maybe the most reasonable scenario is simply economic collapse and another Great Depression.