Peak oil... religious fanatics... pollution... nuclear war... an out of control climate... gigantic tsunamis... nuclear fallout... disease... rising sea levels.

Peak oil... religious fanatics... pollution... nuclear war... an out of control climate... gigantic tsunamis... nuclear fallout... disease... rising sea levels.... Peak Oil would be the end of the world in the same way that the cod crisis destroyed Canada. Pollution has been around for centuries and hasn't offed us yet. The threat of nuclear war is pretty much the only thing that stops real wars from happening between great powers. An out-of-control climate isn't something you talk about in the present tense, and won't be seen for twenty or thirty years if it happens at all. Tsunamis have been around as long as the oceans. Nuclear fallout at a civilization-threatening scale could only result from a nuclear war, which I just dealt with. Disease has been around for billions of years and medicine is getting better, not worse, at keeping people alive until they're in their mid-eighties or so. Rising sea levels will mostly inconvenience third-world island nations, if they become a problem at all. My prediction is that 2012 will be a hilarious year, because so many people will be so worked up about it.