10 REALISTIC WAYS THE WORLD CAN END

 

whether it's global economic collapse  apocalyptic natural disasters  or even aliens you name it and hollywood  has made a blockbuster film about it  sometimes truth is stranger than fiction  so what are some plausible and even  likely ways  the world can end welcome to fact  nominal  and today we're getting apocalyptic in  10  realistic ways the world can end hit  that subscribe button if you're not  already on board  and get ready to have your mind blown  it's a fact  more than 99 of all forms of life that  have ever called the earth home  are extinct take a minute to let that  sink in  there have been five major extinction  level events that we know of  an ice age a global flood a global drop  in  oxygen a worldwide chain of volcanic  eruptions  and finally the 45 000 mile per hour  meteor strike  that wiped out the dinosaurs and left  the crater more than 120 miles wide  with human development causing the  premature extinction of so many species  today  there's a good argument that we are  headed towards  a sixth cataclysmic event if a demise  is inevitable what might be the causes  10. getting hot in here the obvious and  most likely way for mankind to meet its  doom  is ironically by our own hand  the advent of the industrial age has  spewed forth carbon-containing  greenhouse gases  eroding our protective ozone layer  making extreme weather  well more extreme the polar ice caps are  melting  sea temperatures and levels are rising  deserts  are experiencing longer and longer  periods of drought  and little to no rain this cascade of  events will cause  widespread famine as ecosystems  eventually lose the fight to keep up  with demand  the result political instability  economic collapse  and the end of civilization as we know  it  the scary part is there may be no coming  back from the damage we've done  so far time to go back to the stone age  9. killer space rock it seems like the  plot of a bad movie from the 90s and  naughties  but it's true many scientists are  becoming increasingly worried that  a large asteroid could impact the earth  we've already had a close call  in the tunguska event of 1908 a huge  asteroid hurtled into the ground in a  remote part of siberia  which was the largest impact in recorded  history the blast was so great  that it flattened 80 million trees over  an  area of 830 square miles  by meteor standards this guy was a  little baby  even so witnesses saw a fireball streak  across the sky  before erupting into a bright flash of  blue light as bright as the sun  the shock wave broke windows hundreds of  miles away  and knocked people off their feet and  down onto the ground  eight atomic frolic another likely  scenario  and one we're all familiar with is mass  death via  exposure to radioactive fallout as a  result of the eventual nuclear war  there's no point having the biggest  stick in the playground if you're never  going to use it  and it's not just russia and the us that  have nuke strike capability  anymore it could be black market dirty  bombs  or the imagined insults of a certain  north korean supreme leader  but rest assured that someone will  detonate a nuclear device  somewhere eventually it's just a matter  of time  it's not the blast that'll kill most  folks no it's the after effects  acute radiation poisoning multiple  cancers  and the big one global sterility of the  human race  a generation unable to sire one to  replace it  seven got a mask this may hit close to  home but deadly new viruses and bacteria  are popping up every second year across  the globe  whether it's the zika virus ebola size  swine or bird flu each time a new mega  pathogen rears its ugly head  the world collectively holds its breath  and wonders hey  will this be the one that finally wipes  us out international flight  is as commonplace as driving a car and  the world is not as big as it used to be  meaning the next wave of pandemic will  hop countries and borders  extremely quick and hold humanity at  ransom  with its lethal spread we may have  dodged a bullet with covert 19  but in the wake of over a million dead  worldwide  could the next one be our last six  the power of the fungi a shiitake  mushroom may look unassuming  and be mighty tasty but does its  delicious exterior hide a dark  and sinister grand plan new species of  fungi are popping up all the time and  while most molds and mushes are harmless  there are a few that are absolutely  devastating  the chitrid fungus is wiping out  american frogs  left right and center the spores spread  wide and far  and the moist skin of our amphibian  bodies is the perfect breeding ground  for something  not entirely animal but not a plant  either  the equivalent outbreak in the warm damp  lungs of humans  could prove catastrophic we know how to  wipe out viruses  bacteria and amoeba but surprisingly we  know so little about fungi  and less about treating them there is a  possibility  that your dinner could be eating you 5.  biohazard it's not only mother nature  that has a few  microscopic tricks up her sleeve human  beings are more than capable of  genetically engineering a superbug  through gene splicing  with an accidentally leaked designer  pathogen a real possibility  of wiping us out sometimes being a  little too clever  doesn't pay off and although superbugs  are made with the purposes of  researching cures to modern disease  the results of these experiments could  be and have been  weaponized in 2011 scientists in a lab  successfully engineered a mutant strain  of the dreaded h5n1 bird flu  that was transmissible in ferret and  transmitted  as an airborne pathogen why because  it's just one grumpy person having a bad  day away  from being released at a train station  near you  four robot uprising action and sci-fi  buffs saw skynet take over the earth  in the half dozen or so films in the  terminator franchise  and with cutting-edge research and  artificial intelligence advancing every  year  it's only a matter of time before we get  too big  for our boots it's human nature to  control  and will the first true ai take after  its makers and want to exert the same  control on  us the united nations has a blanket ban  on killer robots that is unmanned  automated machines of war even if the  pilot is half a world away controlling  the drone  they have to be the one to pull the  trigger scientists  already think the singularity is near  describing the point at which  ai overtakes human intelligence  three to be or not to be  getting stung by a bee sucks and that  little golden guy would happily lay down  his life just to ruin your day  but this is the same creature that is  responsible  for the food you eat pollination is  critical for the reproduction of  flowering plants which we love  to eat think corn wheat rice all staples  of the human diet the world over  and vital to our survival the simple  fact is  if bees don't exist humans don't exist  since 2006 the population of bees around  the world  has taken a sharp nosedive and no one  really knows why  whether it's pesticides disease or poor  weather conditions caused by global  warming  one thing is for certain we didn't give  the bees the respect  they deserved true to their nature bees  will  absolutely take us down with them two  game over in plain terms destruction  of the earth the sun will eventually  reach supernova as it comes to the end  of its lifespan  this is a scientific fact a huge blast  that will take the earth out and  disintegrate it to atoms  and molecules the earth's core could  grow cold  leaving the earth with a weakened  electromagnetic field  causing a huge shift in conditions to  which life could not adapt  volcanic eruptions along every fault  line of every tectonic plate  obscuring the sun and cooling the earth  to a barren  lifeless rock humans playing around with  the relativistic heavy iron collider in  long island could finally create a  stable strange lit  it's a curious little subatomic particle  containing a bunch of strange quarks  which are heavier than normal matter it  doesn't exist anywhere in the universe  but  it's theoretically possible to make one  by squashing protons and neutrons  together  superhumanly hard the danger comes from  the strangelet's ability to affect  other atoms and cause other strangelets  causing a cascading event that could  transmogrify  all the matter on earth into an army of  other  useless strangelets scary one  all of the above there is a popular  school of thought that it won't be any  one of these events but likely  a combination of multiple large-scale  catastrophes  that forms a snowball effect getting  steadily worse  until conditions on this earth are not  suited to human survival  a shift in climate may give rise to a  new disease  the ultimate pandemic extreme weather  kills off bees  and other pollinating insects causing  the failure of crops  and widespread starvation the next  extinction level event  may not be sudden and grandiose the most  appropriate analogy to use  would be that instead of being mauled by  a bear mankind will be nibbled at  slowly by rats if you enjoyed this article  please give it a like and make sure you  subscribe to  with that  notification button clicked  why not check out some more amazing  articles from