Cooped Up? Get Uncooped.

Last night I watched 28 Days Later, an uber-creepy zombie flick. (Warning: spoilers ahead.) Some of the most striking images in the movie are in the opening minutes, when Jim, the protagonist, wakes from a coma and discovers that the hospital is deserted. He walks out into the streets of London and they are empty. If you've ever been to London, you know this is never the case, especially in the London Bridge area. How did they manage to get that shot?

Anyway, the scene made me think about the many disasters that apparently await the human race in the next hundred years or so.

-California is overdue for a catastrophic earthquake (I live a block from the San Andreas fault - literally. When the big one hits, I am so screwed.)  

-When the Greenland and West Antarctic ice sheets melt, global sea levels will rise up to twenty feet, displacing hundreds of millions of people.

-Climate changes are already intensifying natural disasters like hurricanes.

-One word: pandemic. My aunt works at a co-op, and she says they are required by law to undergo "pandemic training." (As if anyone would go to work!) So I guess it's expected to happen sooner or later, which makes sense when you hear about all the drug-resistant bugs that are popping up.  

My point is that it looks like a whole lot of people could die -just like in the zombie movie. My question is, from a long-term, planetary health perspective, is that a bad thing?

(Obviously from a personal perspective, it sucks big time. Most people don't want to die.)

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