Doomsday Conspiracy Theories

Quite a few people believe that the end of the world is soon coming. 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

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

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.

Judgment Day

Perhaps a more legitimate fear, some fundamentalist Christians believe in an impending apocalypse brought about by the Biblical foretelling of Judgment Day. This would be accompanied by the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

However, the Book of Revelation provided mankind with at least 3,000 years in total from the birth of Christ until Judgment Day would occur.

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Times "Experts" Predicted The World Would End By Now

Times People Thought The World Was Going To End