When I go outside, there are no cars on the street. The radio announces environmental pollution and global warming are becoming acute as carbon dioxide emissions reach alarming levels. Unemployment is staggering. Computer electronic weapons cause billions of dollars in damage. The global economic crisis overtakes even the wealthy and leads to financial catastrophe.
Infectious diseases reach pandemic levels.
A covert biological attack, releasing weaponized small pox, kills hundreds of millions of people. As a nuclear exchange is announced in the Middle East, the spread of war is imminent. Millions of refugees crowd the roads. In a panic, we begin a war in and from space. Life as we know it on our planet ends.