How will the world end?

[JayFarrar]

So I've been reading a lot on the end of the world.
Peak Oil. A world-wide draught. Now this comes along ...
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/SuperModels/CouldWeReallyRunOutOfFood.aspx?page=1
"Could we really run out of food?"

Awesome.
So with the terrorism and other things happening in the world, like the current oil war in Iraq. Then coupled with that, you have some scientists saying that our or lack of technology could wipe us out.
And I'm not talking about terminator style robots, but maybe a man-made virus that we can't cure. Or something we make to fix another problem, but that just makes something else worse.
Like biofuels, everything will be powered by corn. Oh wait, now we don't have corn to eat and we'll starve? Great.

This doesn't even get into things like climate change.

Here's another article with some food for thought
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/apr/14/research.science2

And here's another
http://www.lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/

My best guess, is that it will be a combination of several small things and something we didn't see coming.

 

[BYH]

you forgot the most obvious one: Cubs win the World Series.

 

[Sleeper]

Or: BYH stops griping about Mason.

 

[PHINJ]

Cats and dogs. Living. Together.

 

[Beaker]

There's a mikey joke to be made here, but I'll refrain.

 

[alleyallen]

This thread world will not end well.

 

[Sleeper]

My bet is that an asteroid will do us in before we can do ourselves in.

 

[Ace]

draught wars?

 

[Pastor]

I would include the demise of the most intelligent individuals (which procreate far less than those of less intelligence). A sort of devolutionary process reverting men and women back into the mindset of the stone ages while having a technological arsenal at their disposal.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Depress yourself by reading this novel of a believable, not-too-distant future dystopia, written by one of the leading voices of the Peak Oilers:

 

[Pastor]

draught wars?

Cub fans versus Reds fans. You are either with us or against us...

 

[Chi City 81]

I would include the demise of the most intelligent individuals (which procreate far less than those of less intelligence). A sort of devolutionary process reverting men and women back into the mindset of the stone ages while having a technological arsenal at their disposal.

Mike Judge called. He wants the script back for Idiocracy.

 

[poindexter]

Massive deaths from boob jobs and penile implant surgeries gone bad.

The teenagers will be the first to go.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Whenever I read the news links from the Life After the Oil Crash site I begin looking for the nearest high bridge. Here's some of today's gems (all in a row):

FinancialSense.com: Expect a Massive Banking Crisis Within 18 Months
-- Billions have been magicked out of nothing by this financial alchemy, but in
the end, there is no way of turning dross into gold, and the reckoning had
to come. And someone had to pay - which is where we, the people, come
in. As happened in the 1930s, the whole system is collapsing.

Sunday Herald: The Entire Financial System is Now Collapsing
-- Billions have been magicked out of nothing by this financial alchemy, but in
the end, there is no way of turning dross into gold, and the reckoning had
to come.

Harpers Magazine: "Financial Armageddon is nigh"
-- Both the production-consumption sector and the FIRE [finance, insurance
and real estate] sector know that a debt-inflation Armageddon is nigh, and
both are praying for a timely miracle, a new bubble to keep the economy
from slipping into a depression

 

[JayFarrar]

The draught wars, when Miller and Bud finally decide to duke it over dwindling supplies of hops.
Or maybe I meant Drought Wars. As in the world goes dry and people fight over water.
Me = fail.

 

[Pastor]

I would include the demise of the most intelligent individuals (which procreate far less than those of less intelligence). A sort of devolutionary process reverting men and women back into the mindset of the stone ages while having a technological arsenal at their disposal.

Mike Judge called. He wants the script back for Idiocracy.

It was a very ironic movie...

 

[Ace]

The draught wars, when Miller and Bud finally decide to duke it over dwindling supplies of hops.
Or maybe I meant Drought Wars. As in the world goes dry and people fight over water.
Me = fail.

If it's Miller vs. Bud, I'm gonna remain neutral.

 

[dreunc1542]

This thread is just brimming with optimism.

 

[Beaker]

The draught wars, when Miller and Bud finally decide to duke it over dwindling supplies of hops.
Or maybe I meant Drought Wars. As in the world goes dry and people fight over water.
Me = fail.

If it's Miller vs. Bud, I'm gonna remain neutral.

If Miller and Bud were the last two beers left in the world, I think I'd have to stop drinking...

 

[Oggiedoggie]

Yawn's head will finally implode and the world will be sucked into the resulting vacuum.