Doomsday Conspiracy Theories

This article provides an incomplete list of doomsday conspiracy theories. Doomsdays were hypothesized before 2000, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020, to list a few examples. The end of the world was also predicted several times prior to the 21st century.

Global warming[edit]

A primary doomsday theory involves the argument that the world will end in 2031 due to climate change. The most vocal proponent of this theory is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.

Environmentalists argue that human actions, particularly the burning of fossil fuels, will cause a catastrophic planetary combustion. This bombastic and exuberant theory has been accepted by many mainstream Democrats and environmentalists.

Nuclear armageddon[edit]

In the Cold War era, leftists claimed that if the situation ever turned to all-out war, the planet would be destroyed by the nuclear warfare. The scenario of Mutually Assured Destruction actually prevented the two superpowers of the USA and the USSR from going to war. Earlier, leftists and even some scientists working on the Manhattan Project believed that the use of the new atomic bombs would be cataclysmic. Their fears were disproven after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Similarly, contemporary opponents of nuclear energy propose the same theories that scientists proposed about the atomic bombs developed in the Manhattan Project. They cite freak accidents such as the incidents in Chernobyl and Fukushima as their examples of nuclear catastrophes.

External links[edit]

• 10 Times "Experts" Predicted The World Would End By Now. Fox News.
• 7 Times People Thought The World Was Going To End. Insider.