# DOOMSDAY 2035: Choose between climate catastrophe or anthrocidal massacre
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doomsday-2035-choose-between-climate-catastrophe-or-anthrocidal-massacre/501677
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [July 2, 2009, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doomsday-2035-choose-between-climate-catastrophe-or-anthrocidal-massacre/501677 "2009-07-02T06:30:20Z")
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doomsday-2035-choose-between-climate-catastrophe-or-anthrocidal-massacre/501677/61 "2009-07-08T07:11:08Z")
> [@Tetrahydrocannabinol](#):
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> Living without a TV, or extinction of the human race. Hmm, that’s a toughie.
You decided on both at once apparently.
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### Author:  [@Walker\_in\_Eternity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walker_in_Eternity)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doomsday-2035-choose-between-climate-catastrophe-or-anthrocidal-massacre/501677/62 "2009-07-08T19:47:18Z")
> [@Tetrahydrocannabinol](#):
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> My solutions:
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> 1. Elminate anyone with a disability and/or IQ lower than 125.
But that’s about [95%](http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20061026232452AAsxnZH) of the population.
> [@](#):
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> 1. Declare currency worthless.
> 2. Eradicate technology totally.
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> (Not in any specific order)
If you killed 95% of the human race, I’m sure the other two would follow as a matter of course.
Not that this is necesarily a bad thing, I always liked the idea of [Survivors](http://www.bbc.co.uk/survivors/about.shtml) (mainly the original rather than the remake though)
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### Author:  [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2009, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doomsday-2035-choose-between-climate-catastrophe-or-anthrocidal-massacre/501677/63 "2009-07-08T19:56:52Z")
[QUOTE=Tetrahydrocannabinol]
1. Elminate anyone with a disability and/or IQ lower than 125.
[/QUOTE]
Well, that means I get to carry on in the brave new world. Where do you want the bullet?
> [@](#):
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> 1. Declare currency worthless.
Sure, I’ll get right on that, after we tidy up from number 1…
> [@](#):
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> 1. Eradicate technology totally.
Impossible. Unless your definition of ‘technology’ is different than mine (not that it matters, see number 1). Human beings are intimately linked to technology, and have been for over a million years…ain’t no way we COULD go back to being a species without technology.
Of course, what you actually meant (hopefully tongue in cheek) is: MODERN technology. And probably even there you haven’t thought it through. Luckily, as I’ll be one of the select, I’ve thought it through, and decided that after the initial purges (sorry about that), we will go with MY A-list plan. The one where I’m declared God-King, including beach, throne, skimpily clad love muffins, peeled grapes and palm fronds…and lots of sun tan oil…
-XT
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