This is the premise of a book by Thomas Wren: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2335064.The_Doomsday_Effect https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2335064.The_D

This is the premise of a book by Thomas Wren: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2335064.The_Doomsday_Effect https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2335064.The_Doomsday_Eff... From (distant) memory it was a fun read with some science but not overly realistic wrt to how humanity would react.