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I was shocked when I saw the title of this article in backwoodshome. I was actually surprised at the content of it though. it talks about teotwawki scenarios, and the probability of each.

Issue #134 March/April 2012

"Can you survive a zombie apocalypse?" a familiar voice asked.

I turned in my seat to see O.E. MacDougal, Dave Duffy's poker-playing friend from Southern California, walking toward me. Dave, of course, is the publisher of Backwoods Home Magazine.

I hadn't seen Mac in a long time.

"How are you doing?" I asked.

"Oh, just dandy."

"Zombie apocalypse?" I asked.

"Yeah, Dave said you guys are doing a theme issue that's sort of a preparedness issue if the fertilizer hits the fan."

"We are," I said.

"He says you're writing about how the world can end."

"Yeah, but what's there to write about? How many ways can it end?"

"Lots of ways, but the first thing you have to do is qualify it. When we talk about the world ending," he said, "we usually mean civilization-crippling events, although I guess some scenarios could really ‘end the world' or at least drive the human race into extinction."

"I suppose you're right," I said.

"End-of-the-world scenarios are fun to think about."

"Fun?"

"Of course. That's why every time an apocalyptic date passes, we jump on a new one. Y2K, Planet X, the Mayan calendar — there's no end to them, and there never will be."

"But none of them are realistic," I said.

"Actually, some are," he said.

I looked at him obliquely.

"I'm not kidding," he said. "There have been catastrophic events in the past that, if they happened today, would be the end of life as we know it. I'm not talking about local events, like great earthquakes or even a volcano the size of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, which, when it erupted in 1815, changed the earth's climate for several years so that it even snowed in New England in June of 1816. In fact, it snowed in Europe the same summer. It changed the earth's climate long enough for crops to fail all over the world, causing famines."

"Oh, yeah," I said. "You talked about that, and I wrote about it, way back in the early days of the magazine." (See "The summer it snowed" in The Best of the First Two Years Anthology.)

"You've written about a bunch of global disasters in the past," Mac said. "Maybe, given the focus of this issue, it's a good time to revisit them ... and include a few others you've never written about before because some of them, if they happened today, you and I probably wouldn't survive."

Now he had my attention.

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