Writer's Block: End of the World as We Know It
It's actually a combination of them all. Let me explain:
Firstly, the economy collapses all over the world. Then a pandemic begins, swine flu, and everyone begins to panic about it. While scientists and the general public then begin to worry about swine flu, no one noticies a meteorite on a collision course with Earth. Some scientists think they've developed a cure to swine flu, but it merely mutates the virus and brings the dead back to life. Zombie apocalypse. At first, they can contain it, but something the fiction never told us was that zombies give off a lot of body heat, speeding up global warming.
Because people are idiots, they continue to chop down the rainforests because that's where the diseases might have originated. They must be destroyed. A gamma ray burst from half a galaxy away messes up the atmosphere and the shift of the magnetic poles happens instantly, at the same time again speeding up the melting of what remains of the ice caps. Cities drown and zombies keep lurching and people panic and the meteorite continues on its path.
In the midst of all this, HIV has started being transferred as easily as the common cold, killing off many more people. America's remaining people huddle at Yellowstone National Park, which, being a supervolano, suddenly explodes, ending another few million lives. Finally the meteorite hits, right in the middle of the Pacific, sending two megatsunamis across most of East Asia and South America. The remaining humans in Africa are dying of starvation, dehydration and malaria, and those left in Europe and on the west coast of Australia begin fighting for the remaining resources, killing each other in the most pointless turf wars in history.
It is just when the last three people are left alive that the Large Hadron Collider decides to work and sucks the whole solar system into a mini black hole.
And that, dear readers, is how the world will end.
Maybe.
Firstly, the economy collapses all over the world. Then a pandemic begins, swine flu, and everyone begins to panic about it. While scientists and the general public then begin to worry about swine flu, no one noticies a meteorite on a collision course with Earth. Some scientists think they've developed a cure to swine flu, but it merely mutates the virus and brings the dead back to life. Zombie apocalypse. At first, they can contain it, but something the fiction never told us was that zombies give off a lot of body heat, speeding up global warming.
Because people are idiots, they continue to chop down the rainforests because that's where the diseases might have originated. They must be destroyed. A gamma ray burst from half a galaxy away messes up the atmosphere and the shift of the magnetic poles happens instantly, at the same time again speeding up the melting of what remains of the ice caps. Cities drown and zombies keep lurching and people panic and the meteorite continues on its path.
In the midst of all this, HIV has started being transferred as easily as the common cold, killing off many more people. America's remaining people huddle at Yellowstone National Park, which, being a supervolano, suddenly explodes, ending another few million lives. Finally the meteorite hits, right in the middle of the Pacific, sending two megatsunamis across most of East Asia and South America. The remaining humans in Africa are dying of starvation, dehydration and malaria, and those left in Europe and on the west coast of Australia begin fighting for the remaining resources, killing each other in the most pointless turf wars in history.
It is just when the last three people are left alive that the Large Hadron Collider decides to work and sucks the whole solar system into a mini black hole.
And that, dear readers, is how the world will end.
Maybe.