How will it happen?

These days, many people have a feeling that something is going to take place (maybe sooner than later) that will change everything for the worse.

But how this major calamity, catastrophe or collapse will manifest itself in a way that affects all of Earth’s human inhabitants is certainly in the realm of the unknown. But what I find extremely interesting about the situation is how numerous the potential causes are, and how there are arguably more now than ever.

Will its origin be man-made?

Will Russia force the rest of the world to take sides in a final World War?

Will Islam finally make good on its promise to eliminate the Infidel and force people in Christian, Buddhist and Hindu nations – and everyone else who doesn’t adhere to Muhammad’s teachings – into a final, worldwide, religiously-based showdown? 

Will Iran develop nuclear weapons and try to make good on its promise wipe out Israel?

Will China finally attack Taiwan and force the United States and other “allies” into a cataclysmic response?

Will North Korea and its Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un finally stop spewing threats and rhetoric and take some sort of wild, irrational, nuclear-based action?

Will China’s economy implode and send the world into an economic crash?

Will the U.S. banking system collapse and send economies in China, Europe and everywhere else into an irreparable breakdown? 
Will some extremist organization figure out how to shut down a significant portion of the worldwide electronic grid?

Will a previously unknown group quickly rise up and wreak global havoc?

Will transportation and communication systems cease to function?

Will food and water become scarce and hard to obtain?

Or will whatever happens be due to a natural cause?

Will the sun emit a gigantic solar flare or coronal mass ejection that bakes all the inner planets to a crisp?

Will a huge asteroid appear in the skies and make a direct hit on Earth?

Will there be another ice age, or perhaps a global drought?

Will the north and south poles do a complete shift (as has happened in the past)?

Will the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupt and create a massive ash cloud that obscures the sun for years?

Or will there be some brand new type of circumstance unlike anything previously seen or known that nobody could describe prior to its manifestation?

Obviously, there are many possibilities and only God knows what will go down.

Stay tuned, humanity. Only one thing is sure: If something really big and negative does happen, there won’t be a way to ignore it, and we’ll all be in it together.

Doug Davison is a writer, photographer and newsroom assistant for the Houston Herald. Email: ddavison@houstonherald.com.