anthropogenic existential risk to civilization theme
There is a way in which life on Earth (or some inhabited planet) could end as a consequence of what the inhabitants on the planet choose to do. When will the self-replicating, self-aware killer robots be unleashed?
16 total · 3 choice · 11 major · 2 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ldr2019e1x02 | choice | The story takes place in the ruins of a world where humanity had recently gone extinct due to its own actions. For example, the idea was entertained that humanity perished in either a nuclear conflagration or from an self-inflicted ecological catastrophe. The cat explained that humanity genetically engineering cats to have opposable thumbs played a role in humanity extinction. The demise of humanity might have come about from a combination of all three. |
| ldr2019e3x01 | choice | The story takes place in the ruins of a world where humanity had recently gone extinct. For example, the idea was entertained that humanity perished in either a nuclear conflagration or from an self-inflicted ecological catastrophe or from rebellious robots. The cat explained that humanity genetically engineering cats to have opposable thumbs played a role in humanity extinction. The demise of humanity might have come about from a combination of all three. |
| movie: Avengers: Infinity War (2018) | choice | The Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy joined forces in an effort to prevent Thanos from destroying half of all life in the universe. |
| ldr2019e1x06 | major | Human civilization inadvertently created a yogurt bacterial that they became subservient to and utterly dependent upon. Then the yogurt left, leaving open the question of what would happen to humanity. |
| movie: Casshern (2004) | major | Humankind created a new race of humans, called Neo Sapiens, that subsequently rose up and made a bid for world domination, trying to exterminate humanity in the process. |
| movie: Men in Black II (2002) | major | Agent J and Agent K saved the world from being annihilated by the Light of Zartha. |
| movie: Moonraker (1979) | major | Drax plotted to kill everyone human on Earth by exposing the world population to a certain orchid derived nerve agent. Drax and his followers would wait out the downfall of humankind hold up inside their city in space. |
| movie: Robot Wars (1993) | major | By 2041 a proliferation of toxic gas had left large parts of North America uninhabitable. |
| movie: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) | major | The misanthropic Dr. Totenkopf had set in motion a plot to kill everyone on Earth by using the afterburners on his "Noah's Ark" rocketship to ignite the planet's atmosphere. |
| movie: Spaceballs (1987) | major | The president of the planet Spaceball schemed to force King Roland of the neighboring planet Druidia to hand over their atmosphere after squandered all of its fresh air. |