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You should read the Apocalypse Triptych. It's a set of three volumes of short stories about the end of the world, and each author has their own take on what causes it/happens. The first volume is stories about right before what happens, the second is stories that take place during, and the final volume is stories about living in the post-apocalypse society. Some of the authors continue their storyline through each volume, while others are one-offs. It will give you a wide-ranging look at all kinds of ways that human civilisation might end. You could do a pharmaceutical angle. Antibiotic resistance is growing at an alarming rate, and we're now finding resistance to some of the "last line of defence" antibiotics we have. We're not really funding the development and research of new ones and haven't for the past 30 odd years since all the money is in psych drugs, obesity, and cancer. Also seconding the mad cow type idea - prions are loving terrifying. We used to think that they were not easily transmitted (eating infected brain tissue), but recent research in the last few years has shown they can be transmitted through aerosol particles, and there's preliminary research on their transmission through water reservoirs and crops (due to prions being found in manure) and infertility treatments.
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bad day posted:Yeah I had thought of this scenario before I saw the series and it kind of felt like they were reading my mind (actually it's just an obvious combination of conspiracy tropes) but my story involved elites hiding themselves in bunkers and I was trying to think of how they would realistically go about doing this, if Alex Jones et al were actually right. In the scenario presented in Utopia there's no reason for elites to sequester themselves so that would not work. The dust would be a big deal in the sense that it would drastically change the planet to which the survivors would someday return. You'd essentially be freezing and choking everything, killing off a large portion of plant and animal life, etc. The survivors wouldn't just walk back out into a lush, happy world. Plus, given that it's not really been tested before on a large scale to see what kind of problems pop up, the chance of those survivor communities not dying off for various reasons is pretty low, especially since there is no safe place to go if something happens to their self-sustaining capsules. Then once it's safe for people to go back outside, the world is going to be very different.
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