Everybody loves a horror movie, or maybe a film about the apocalypse. But how likely are these disasters to happen in real life? Here are five events that, if they happened today could wipe out humanity, or at very least – civilisation as we know it…
#1 – Nuclear War
It’s widely known that a nuclear war, involving multiple countries attacking each other, would eventually lead to human extinction. If the radiation didn’t get us, the lack of viable food and water sources would. And if anyone survives radiation and starvation, the dust cloud from the bombs would block out the sun, eventually killing most of the life on Earth. Let’s hope everyone keeps their hands away from those red buttons.