the pessimist's coming rapture (an eschatological litany):

agriculture failure + famine | bioaccumulation overload | climate collapse | dirty bombing outbreak | drought + desertification | electromagnetic pulse event | energy crash | extinction spasm | food-biofuel conflict | global economic rupture | habitat disintegration | ice sheet collapse (west antarctic + greenland) | livestock epizootic | nano-plague | refugee deluge | singularity recursion | uncontained pandemic