John Christopher’s “No Blade of Grass”. Great book, so-so movie.
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There’s a fascinating YA book called Life As We Knew It where the meteor doesn’t hit Earth; it hits the moon. The moon is knocked out of orbit and moves much closer to the Earth. The story centers on a girl in New England but there is discussion about what that new orbit does to the climate and tides. The whole world doesn’t fall completely apart, but it makes it very hard to live in for awhile. It’s a trilogy, but I haven’t read the second and third books.
This is the first one that came to mind for me. Not so much dystopian as “how we got there”.
Both the novel Pontypool Changes Everything and the movie Pontypool feature an original take on a ‘zombie apocalypse’-type scenario:
It’s a virus, but a memetic virus, transferred via certain speech patterns that then take root in the listener’s mind, causing them to go mad and try to kill themselves and others.
The comic Y: The Last Man features a scenario in which men suddenly go extinct. Similar to that in theme is the novel Yin; however, the latter is far inferior in execution, and mostly posits that everything would break down without men to repair stuff.
In the movie, “Real Men”, Jim Belushi and John Ritter fight their way to a meet-up with aliens, who will provide them with the “good package”, allowing them to reverse the death of all the ocean’s plankton, thus preventing the end of all life on the planet within three years. They’re fighting against another group of gov’t agents who want to get the “big gun” from the aliens instead - as they’re a little short-sighted.