What Global Risks?

[Devonian]

I tend to agree with S13 on this and find it difficult to comprehend an EOTWAWKI event.

Most risks/events are likely to be local/regional as opposed to global, they could still be serious and long lasting, but that doesn't mean we couldn't get back to where we are today - think about the boxing day Tsunami as an example.

Also no matter how much some countries hate us, there will always be others that will offer help, as we would to them, including most of Europe; the US; Canada; Australia/New Zealand etc.... I also wouldn't necessarily discount China/Russia offering assistance either....

So to go back to the original question, then for me it has to be either all out global nuclear war, which I think is highly unlikely; or some kind of event originating from space not little green men!, but possibly a huge EMF; large meteor impact or pole reversal etc...

Even then with an EMF strike, we do not really know what kind of effect that will have, many cars for example with their monocoque construction may already form a satisfactory faraday cage capable of protecting their electronics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6XGKZxYxA

The same may also be correct for many steel framed and steel clad buildings - we just don't know???

So the idea of some kind of totally "global event" that universally affects everyone is for me at least difficult to comprehend.......

Oh, and the large meteor impact, well that could just be an extinction level event, so we don't need to worry about that do we!!