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Climate apocalypse
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<p>A climate apocalypse is a term used to denote a <a href="/facts/Futures_studies/h59ennpW">predicted scenario</a> involving the global <a href="/facts/Climate_change_and_civilizational_collapse/70ISxCQ3">collapse of human civilization due to climate change</a>. Such collapse could theoretically arrive through a set of interrelated concurrent factors such as famine, <a href="/facts/Extreme_weather/gzcNR4BC">extreme weather</a>, war and conflict, and disease. There are many similar terms in use such as climate <i>dystopia</i>, <i>collapse</i>, <i>endgame</i>, and <i>catastrophe</i>. </p>