The End Of The World, And What Happened Afterwards
an excerpt

“How the world as we knew it ended”

Nobody knows how the world as we knew it ended.

We all, at some point or another, have had the discussion. We have spewed theory after theory, but all of them had more flaws than answers and the truth is, we really don’t know. I doubt we ever will.

Some people think aliens did it. But where are they now? Why bother killing – murdering – ninety-nine percent of the human race if you don’t even want to keep the planet? And even if they had just killed everyone for sport, then we’d have some clue. But there is nothing.

Then divine retribution. God did it, in much the same way as he supposedly did with Noah and the floods and suchlike. Vengeful, Old Testament God. I guess, atheist as I have always been, that I was an early supporter of this theory, simply because it made as much sense as the end of the world did: it was completely random. No warning, God struck us down.

We all know why I stopped believing that theory. If God was punishing the wicked, he picked the wrong people, which pretty much precludes him being omniscient. He should have gone after the Christians; at least the ones he missed.

We’ll talk about that later, of course.

Which brings us onto the next of the serious theories, if the word ‘serious’ is even appropriate here. That humanity was wiped out by humanity. By science.

It wasn’t a war, I think. At least, it wasn’t a nuclear war. I survived, which proves the point. I guess it could have been a poison, some kind of airborne virus. But why did it not target me, and you, and everyone else who survived? And who released it? Where are they?

Lastly, someone once said that the planet is fighting back after centuries of pollution. This theory is so contemptible that I won’t even go into why it’s blatantly bollocks, but – suffice to say – I don’t believe it.

So we don’t know. I don’t know. I got a third class degree in English, and I’m one of the smartest people left on the planet. I don’t think we’re ever going to find out.