{"id":20361,"date":"2016-05-02T05:24:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T10:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20361"},"modified":"2016-05-02T05:24:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T10:24:37","slug":"the-end-of-america-13-catastrophic-events-which-could-soon-lead-to-an-american-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=20361","title":{"rendered":"The End Of America?: 13 Catastrophic Events Which Could Soon Lead To An American Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-headline\">\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/the-end-of-america-13-catastrophic-events-which-could-soon-lead-to-an-american-apocalypse\">The End Of America?: 13 Catastrophic Events Which Could Soon Lead To An American Apocalypse<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-byline\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/archives\/the-end-of-america-13-catastrophic-events-which-could-soon-lead-to-an-american-apocalypse\/apocalyptic-public-domain-5\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10208\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10208\" src=\"http:\/\/theeconomiccollapseblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Apocalyptic-Public-Domain-460x240.jpg\" alt=\"Apocalyptic - Public Domain\" width=\"460\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a>Is the strongest and most powerful nation on the planet headed for an apocalypse which will bring it to its knees?\u00a0 We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and apocalyptic themes have become very common in books, movies, television shows and video games.\u00a0 It is almost as if there is an unconscious understanding on a societal level that something very big and very bad is coming, even if the vast majority of the population cannot specifically identify what that is going to be.\u00a0 Last week, the Global Challenges Foundation released a new report entitled \u201c<a title=\"Global Catastrophic Risks 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/globalprioritiesproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Global-Catastrophic-Risk-Annual-Report-2016-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Global Catastrophic Risks 2016<\/a>\u201d in which they discussed various apocalyptic events that they believe could wipe out more than 10 percent of the population of our planet, and they warned that these types of events\u00a0<a title=\"\u201care more likely than we intuitively think\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/science\/apocalypse-way-scientists-fear-asteroids-7850630\" target=\"_blank\">\u201care more likely than we intuitively think\u201d<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sebastian Farquhar, director at the Global Priorities Project, told the Press Association: \u201cThere are some things that are on the horizon, things that probably won\u2019t happen in any one year but could happen, which could completely reshape our world and do so in a really devastating and disastrous way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistory teaches us that many of these things are more likely than we intuitively think. Many of these risks are changing and growing as technologies change and grow and reshape our world. But there are also things we can do about the risks.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a title=\"this new report\" href=\"http:\/\/globalprioritiesproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Global-Catastrophic-Risk-Annual-Report-2016-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">this new report<\/a>, we are five times more likely to die from the various apocalyptic catastrophes that they analyzed than we are from a car accident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The End Of America?: 13 Catastrophic Events Which Could Soon Lead To An American Apocalypse Is the strongest and most powerful nation on the planet headed for an apocalypse which will bring it to its knees?\u00a0 We live in a world that is becoming increasingly unstable, and apocalyptic themes have become very common in books, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[28,13686,13687,13688,10472,13689,13690,13691,5983,4901,12750,13692],"class_list":["post-20361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-apocalypse","tag-apocalypse-2016","tag-apocalyptic","tag-apocalyptic-events","tag-catastrophic","tag-catastrophic-events","tag-catastrophic-events-2016","tag-catastrophic-risks","tag-economiccollapseblog","tag-michael-snyder","tag-pain","tag-the-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20362,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20361\/revisions\/20362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}