Choose Your Adventure

MadScientist · Heavy Crude Joined: May 19, 2004 Posts: 418

There's just so many ways it could go down.
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Other: Famine
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Ludi · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: Choose Your Adventure

Other: a combination of famine caused by peak oil and global warming, with epidemics and pandemics thrown in for good measure. Most death will be from disease rather than outright starvation.
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Shannymara · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 6:22 pm Post subject: Re: Choose Your Adventure

Epidemic(s), brought on and exacerbated by increased poverty and famine in an overcrowded world.

2nd place: nukes. I was torn but went with disease.
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cynthia · Heavy Crude Joined: May 29, 2005 Posts: 382

dinopello · Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject: Re: Choose Your Adventure

So many to choose from ! It's hard to go wrong with disease, I'll have to go with disease. But I'll say pestilence cause it sounds cooler.

RedStateGreen · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:00 pm Post subject: Re: Choose Your Adventure

I voted for resource depletion, and here's why:

- oil: supply << demand, leading to unrest, food/water disruptions, and issues with everything from transportation to health care supplies leading to even more deaths (just think about what all is made with plastic). TPTB know this and have been frantically maneuvering their way into where they think the oil is most plentiful for years, thus leading to more deaths due to war.

- potable water: supply << demand, leading to unrest, food/water disruptions, possibly wars fought over water supply, and deaths due to lack of clean water/illness.

- food: supply will become << demand in spots, leading to unrest, and more deaths due to hunger, rioting (and the inevitable police response), and illness.

- rare metals: supply is already < demand, leading to the stripping of homes/buildings/etc. for metals, thefts, etc. Sooner or later this is going to get ugly.

I'm sure there's more but you get the picture.
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MadScientist · Heavy Crude Joined: May 19, 2004 Posts: 418

Tanada · Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: Re: Choose Your Adventure

I voted Global Thermo-nuclear War because while I agree disease might kill more in the long run I think nuclear war will be the place disease gets its toehold in Europe and North America. We have held off disease for decades because we have the medical infrastructure to do so, one little nuclear war takes out that infra structure and out population from the Ural mountains west to California is going to be ravaged by disease.
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Ibon · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 5:10 am Post subject: Re: Choose Your Adventure

Just like solutions to our energy crisis, the solutions to our over population is that there are no silver bullets, only many silver BB's.

My answer: all of the above, but not in my lifetime
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