>Post-apocalyptic setting
>The apocalypse is always caused by a generic disaster, often the explanation is little more than "global warming"
>The entire planet is now a desert, everyone loses their sense of fashion and starts wearing ridiculous leather clothes
>Cars and bikes are still incredibly prominent, despite manufacturing and oil refining persumably having stopped
What's a realistic, or at the very least, plausible apocalypse that can create a post-apocalyptic society, and what would said society plausible look like? /pol/, please don't distribute red pills like they're XTC pills at a rave. Keep it down a little.
Post-apocalyptic setting
Noah Russell
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Zachary Lee
There's always your good old-fashioned superplague. An asteroid strike is another good choice, as long as you're OK with it not being humanity's fault. Finally, nuclear weaponry works great as long as you're alright with a nice green setting instead of a boring brown one.
Jonathan Collins
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last of us
Chase Campbell
You start out with global warming. Global warming causes economic pressure and agricultural problems. It also creates severe problems for navies that have invested billions and among the bigger countries, trillions of dollars into an infrastructure that's now below sea level.
This causes an unstable political theatre with an unstable economy.
And NOW you can start World War 3! Big fucking nuclear clouds across the continents. Dark skies. Mass starvation as the infrastructure collapses. Now you're on the level of most post-apocalyptic stories. There are still cars and guns, but no real government. Armies of hoodlums and raiders are scouring the ruins of yesterday for the technology of the fallen world.
And NOW you can start World War 4! The goons have started shooting chemical and biological weapons at each other without understanding the risks! Now the decimated are decimated, and technology takes a nose dive straight to medieval levels.
Now you're at the level of the "medieval world" with the occasional gun wizard and computer god.
Connor Edwards
most 'apocalypses' would either mean that there are no humans (gamma burst), or we would get over it (black death)
one that could work, although, is an EMP, caused by the sun. the EMP would wipe out most (>99%) of the worlds circuit based technology, with only tech being held in farede cages not being wiped. this would, of course, cause a very quick societal meltdown.
more importantly, the society after woulds. honestly, this depends on the time after the EMP, but judging that your gripes are with tech still being usable, we will say 00 - 50 years.
this society would most likely degrade into warring factions that hold power over small areas (being a britfag, I could say that all the towns and villages around me would now become states, other countries may have scenarios like the pitt in fallout 3). technology would be at a 18-19th century level, some more wealthy places may have steam engines and firearms, whilst poorer areas would look like revolutionary america. the fashion depends on the area. if this the disaster is recent, then most likely scrounged up stuff, but later on, old textile manufacturing may come back en masse.
TL;DR: no iphone means muskets
Chase Baker
>loses their sense of fashion
you meant gain
Isaac Kelly
Another fun scenario takes a little bit from the Matrix.
>machine intelligence reaches singularity
>mankind flips the fuck out
>humanity nukes shit and throws emps everywhere in a full on luddite retard spergout fucking up all their technology
>machine intelligence doesn't give a fuck, creates a whole ecosystem of lesser machine intelligences, builds a spaceship and heads for the center of the galaxy to do SCIENCE!
>mankind left to stew in the shit they caused themselves while machine-made gods walk among them
Jace Foster
>Global Warming
Please tell me you guys don't believe in this meme?
Robert Reed
i thought he said no red pill shit, and tell that to the people in the Maldives who've had their houses flooded thanks to melting ice caps.
Dominic Green
>GAWD didn't create no warmin' globe!
>an' iffin' GAWD did then GAWD will save us!