6 Apocalyptic Scenarios That Could (But Hopefully Won’t) Happen Today

The apocalypse is a weird obsession of the human race. Ever since our existence evolved into being able to predict the near future when it comes to things like weather, economy, space,… we’ve been wondering what and when will finally be the undoing of us. It’s a bit nihilistic to say the least, but that doesn’t make it any less fascinating.

It’s not like we’d want to know to prevent it, either. The Mayas had us believing the world would end in 2012, only to have scientists make a statement in 2011 or 2012 that the Mayan calendar was “probably” misread. Crisis averted, right? Apparently it was, because we’re all still here.

There’s other things that could end our existence – or at least a huge portion of it – in little to no time, however.

The Climate

Let’s start off with the obvious one. Greenhouse emissions have been slowly but surely heating up our planet and changing its climate – as anyone currently living under the pressure of Europe’s biggest heat wave since whenever will be able to tell you. This can cause multiple species of animals on our planet to go extinct in a matter of generations, and there’s no reason to believe that at some point, mankind will be the next species on that list.

The Large Hadron Collider

Look, whenever you build something that’s made to learn more about how black holes work, you kind of run the risk of creating a black hole. One of the more spectacular doomsday scenarios concerning the LHC claims that it could malfunction and suck up our entire planet into a miniature black hole. That probably sounds like something we should try to avoid.