The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses | 
pickA look at all the near hits and hits that human civilization has taken from antiquity to the near misses of the Nuclear Age. Civilizations have risen and collapsed throughout history for a variety of reasons. And the lesson we can take is that none of these civilizations saw it coming. Nor did they ever believe it would come. If history should teach us anything it is that civilization isn‘t infinite and our time could come, too.
pick"Its the end of the world as we know it, it's the end of the world as we know it, it's the end of the world as we know it...and I feel fine" - R.E.M.
An interesting historical perspective on the end of the world. It's never really the end of the world, just the end of the life you are accustom to living. The choice is evolve or die like the dinosaurs. Climate change and pandemics will happen, civilization will adapt. 4 ????
