I think for a large portion of the masses, the 'apocalypse' implies the end of most of the human populace

history channel documentary hd I would do well to begin by characterizing precisely what I have as a top priority with the expression 'the apocalypse' as 'the end' can take a few structures. Firstly however to the time it takes for a the apocalypse occasion: A genuine apocalypse situation will be a fleeting occasion, enduring from minor seconds (say a gamma beam burster) to a while (say a pandemic, hard and fast atomic war, a super-well of lava). I'm not talking multi-decades to hundreds of years here according to an Earth-wide temperature boost and rising ocean levels or the happening to the following Ice Age. The End of the World = the Destruction of Planet Earth ("When Worlds Collide" situations). That is, Planet Earth and clearly one and all on same go down the gurgler.

The End of the World = the Destruction of All Life on Planet Earth - a sterile Earth. Planet Earth gets by, to a more prominent or lesser degree, yet nothing organic survives. The End of the World = the Elimination of All Human Beings on Planet Earth ("On the Beach" related situations). Planet Earth and most life structures, barring people, survive. Presently the survivors may add up to just microorganisms, cockroaches and rats, yet the only thing that is in any way important here is that 100% of all individuals from the human species are no more. Welcome to Planet Earth: Human Population Zero. The End of the World = Drastic Alterations to the Status Quo of Human Beings on Planet Earth. There's intense possibility of consummation humankind, in any case insufficient to wipe every one of us off the floor.

I think for a large portion of the masses, the 'apocalypse' implies the end of most of the human populace, barring them obviously. At the end of the day, it's much the same as the "intense adjustments of the norm of individuals on Planet Earth". It's 'Armageddon', 'the end times', the 'end of days', the 'second coming', 'the euphoria', or, stripped of any religious meaning, some kind of atomic war, worldwide pandemic, a blend of nasties brought about by an unnatural weather change, a space rock strike that disastrous yet not very calamitous, say it just wipes out 99.9% of humankind - that still abandons somewhere in the range of six million odd bodies and turfs occupying the globe. Hell, with that number of survivors combined with a 'be productive and duplicate' situation, Planet Earth will again be overpopulated with people really snappy shrewd. I mean we lost millions in WWII, yet the populace extended.