[Barbara]

My husband firmly believes climate change/pollution will hit us hard before peakoil come. I firmly believe this is just an excuse not to prepare for PO.

(Let's hope he's wrong... we really can't deal with a climate/pollution disaster.)

[Battle_Scarred_Galactico]

Climate change, whether PO happens or not.

If we find 10 new saudi Arabias and PO is delayed, then we keep business as usual it and do it that way.

If PO continues as all the evidence suggests, then we have more idiotic coal buring and make it worse. However I don't think coal liquification is possible under this system, so we'll only get electricity out of it (WooHoo, big deal)

So there you go, climate change is the big one. I'm not exactly alone in this view either.

[medicvet]

There is a myriad of things that can happen..but my 'back up' is kinda on the front burner right now, with PO being on the back burner. With Peak Oil we have at least a few years to adjust our lifestyle.

But I am more concerned about WWIII breaking out over the whole Israel/Iran thing.

[4StringSlinger]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('PrairieMule', 'f')unny!

Here is a old Texas joke..

Have you heard what CBS is doing Survivor:Texas?

Requires 16 participants to attempt to drive from Lubbock to Austin with a bumper sticker that reads "I am a gay lobbyist here to take your bibles and guns away."

[AmericanEmpire]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'w')e really can't deal with a climate/pollution disaster

[Ludi]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('bobcousins', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')'m not really into the whole apocalypse thing, but I think I'll go for either "asteroid collision" or "Yellowstone explodes."

[OneLoneClone]

Zombie attack!

[PrairieMule]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('OneLoneClone', 'Z')ombie attack!

[SurvivalAcres]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'B')elieve me overpopulation and resource depletion will not just go away when the ball drops. ok?

[lakedaemonian]

I don't subscribe to ANY apocalyptic theories and I am an optomist at heart.

I don't sweat the low probability scenarios.....I think it's a waste of time.

What I try to focus on are the higher probability scenarios like:

local/regional fast and sharp events, like:

*resource related military confrontations
*Hedge Fund collapse
*Property Bubble
*commodity spikes
*both man-made and natural disasters
*long-incubation contagions

national/international "slow burn" scenarios

*the India/China effect on resource comsumption in 5-10-20 years
*nationalization of energy resources
*currency "race for the bottom" devaluations
*high value job outsourcing
*de-globalization from increased trade barriers, increased energy costs, and/or contagions and the resulting shockwaves
*top heavy demographics and underfunded social security programs(and I'm not just talking about the US, Japan is probably the first case study)

Both professionally and personally it's necessary for me to develop reasonably good risk management to protect my interests.

At the moment, the closest thing to an apocalyptic scenario that I subscribe is a swarm of near simultaneous mid-to-high probability events with EACH having SOME impact on MANY of us, but combined will have a substantial impact on ALL of us.

Basically, a cascade of small events(relatively speaking), equalling one gigantic pain in the butt.

[Omnitir]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I')'m not really into the whole apocalypse thing, but I think I'll go for either "asteroid collision" or "Yellowstone explodes."

[oowolf]

I've spent 30 years prepping for a civilizational collapse and influenza can easily be treated with nutraceuticals. Asteroid, supervolcano, nuclear holocaust; likely no amount of preparation will help. What I believe will actually happen-and it's already too late to do anything about- is runaway global warming which will raise Earth temperatures by 6 to 15 degrees F over the next 25 to 50 years: the ice caps will melt lowering the salt concentration of seawater disrupting the "thermohaline" capacity of the ocean as well as inundating entire nations (Bangladesh, Maldive Islands, lower Florida, etc) meanwhile, the permafrost will thaw releasing an unbelievable amount of methane resulting in the warmest planet Earth in 120,000 thousand years. Southern and great plains of America will probably become desert with summer temperatures approaching 130 deg F. NW Montana's climate will become subtropical. This will result in catastrophic disruption of entire ecosystem with apocalyptic dieoff of niche specific species. And we can have the satisfaction of knowing "we did it".

Anthropology/history indicates that we'll probably nuke the hell outta the place first.

[Lokutus]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('oowolf', 'I')'ve spent 30 years prepping for a civilizational collapse and influenza can easily be treated with nutraceuticals. Asteroid, supervolcano, nuclear holocaust; likely no amount of preparation will help. What I believe will actually happen-and it's already too late to do anything about- is runaway global warming which will raise Earth temperatures by 6 to 15 degrees F over the next 25 to 50 years: the ice caps will melt lowering the salt concentration of seawater disrupting the "thermohaline" capacity of the ocean as well as inundating entire nations (Bangladesh, Maldive Islands, lower Florida, etc) meanwhile, the permafrost will thaw releasing an unbelievable amount of methane resulting in the warmest planet Earth in 120,000 thousand years. Southern and great plains of America will probably become desert with summer temperatures approaching 130 deg F. NW Montana's climate will become subtropical. This will result in catastrophic disruption of entire ecosystem with apocalyptic dieoff of niche specific species. And we can have the satisfaction of knowing "we did it".