Interview 1

AMANDA P.
OCCUPATION: SERVER
AGE: 23
EDUCATION LEVEL: BACHELORS DEGREE

KM: How do you envision the end of the world?
AP: One of two ways. The first being my fathers way, the world will just explode and nobody is going to expect it. The second would be the world would become too overpopulated and we would run out of the necessary resources. It would be over the course of time that the world’s population would be depleted.
KM: So basically people wouldn’t have the resources necessary to survive?
AP: Yeah. I really don’t think it’s going to be a big scientific thing or social level of expectation, it will just happen of the course of time.
KM: Would this be a process that people are socially conscious of?
AP: I think it is a conscious thing for people now. With the population of the world being higher than expected right now, it will only increase. Our level of natural resources and everyday things needed to survive are depleting already. At least the resources we’ve become accustomed to. Like technology and the standard of life people have become accustomed to cannot be sustained at the rate we are going.
KM: It would be more of a peak of everything and then a total decline?
AP: Yeah.
KM: You don’t see any big apocalyptic or catastrophic event?
AP: No, I don’t think it’s realistic.
KM: Once this decline starts do you think people will lose it?
AP: To an extent. I think even today people see the potential of it, and, you know, if something doesn’t change people aren’t going to survive. Generations from now won’t survive, because they won’t have anything to survive off of.
KM: What do you think will be the first thing to go?
AP: Probably our transportation abilities and trade and everything that keeps the world as it is running. Countries and specific groups of people are going to stick together and horde their resources. And then the United States is fucked.
KM: Do you see this leading to some sort of end times world war over these resources?
AP: Potentially, but even then, when it gets to that point there wouldn’t be enough resources to sustain a war.