Choose your favorite end-of-the-world scenario

 

A good comprehensive article by the Washington Post's Joel Achenbach on how the world might end.  Or civilization.  Or humanity.  Or all of the above.

Storms! Nukes! Climate Calamity! Killer Robots!

Astute observation:

"Also worth remembering: There’s no reason to think that multiple existential risks can’t happen simultaneously. Like a supervolcano erupting just when the killer robots announce they’re taking over (good, let them handle it).

The point is, the Menu of Doom is even longer than the one they give you at the Cheesecake Factory. Historian Niall Ferguson, author of “Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe,” told me, “Future historians will find it ironic that we had so many debates about climate change when something else was about to smash us.”

So what's it going to be?  We'd like to know before it's too late. (Or too early, depending on your place on the timeline.)