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Worldwide climatological disaster and associated geopolitical turmoil cause the human population to plummet rapidly. How rapidly will determine whether or not we return to essentially the stone age or maintain some semblance of modern civilization.
They've been saying that for 100 years now and it hasn't happened yet. Humanity has always been able to adapt to changing circumstances.