So much for small government.

This is one conspiracy theory where I really do scratch my head and say "but… to what end?"

To be fair, not all religions are apocalyptic, some Eastern religions see time as cyclical rather than rectilinear. But you're right, Christianity has apocalypse baked right into it. It's like the idea that apparently some American conservatives only support Israel on the basis that the Jews returning to their…

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead envying cLOUDDEAD

Sure, but look on the bright side. I mean… wait, I thought I had something…

Sure, but in this context I meant apocalypse as conceived of in Christian eschatology.

You mean like Congress?

That's how they get you.

That's like trying to be fashionably late to a party and then when you get there everyone is already dead. You know those ones.

Story checks out.

The early Christians all believed that apocalypse would come within their lifetimes. It didn't happen for them, or for any subsequent generation for two thousand years. It takes a special kind of crazy at this point to think it's going to happen for you.

In principle, I see what you're saying. Not general healthcare maybe, but perhaps a global pandemic on the level of the bubonic plague would be able to reduce the global population to the point where we are consuming, and thus polluting, less. A smaller crisis that might avert or at least postpone a larger one.

Probably not, unless there were similarly devastating healthcare crises in other majorly polluting counties such as China at the same time. Besides, I would think (hope anyway) that no democratic society would put up with a healthcare crisis so bad that it was actually having an affect on population levels.

From what I understand Britain will actually get much colder in the medium term. Once the rising oceans have interfered with the Gulf Stream we'll lose our temperate climate. We're as far north as Alaska so we'll become as cold as they are.

Good point! We could cover a good selection of these if we coordinate properly.

I guess here in London I'm looking at the same.

I'm paralysed by choice. Do I have to pick one or can I combine two or three?

Depends which Mad Max. I wouldn't mind being a road warrior but I'd rather be dead than have to deal with that Thunderdome bullshit.

The dead envying the super-dead.

Oh man. I'm finding it tough to be snarky about this one.