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** Worst case scenario? The whole world dies from volcanic ash. Ouch.
* Despite the introduction of nuclear weapons non-proliferation treaties (say that five times fast), enough live/active nuclear weapons still exist to wipe out the entire human race, depending on when they're dropped. We just can't take them apart as fast as we made them.
* A massive solar storm hits us with a huge [[EMP|mass of charged particles]], which interact with the Earth's magnetic field, sending huge currents along high voltage power cables, saturating transformer cores and melting them... all across the globe. The last time this happened - the [[w:Solar storm of 1859|Carrington Event]] in 1859 - the entire telegraph system in Europe and North America was taken offline. We're even more dependent on telecommunications now. Repairs could take months, during which access to food and water becomes a problem since so much of the developed world's infrastructure depends on electricity. The USA and Canada might even become
=== May ALREADY have happened ===
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