Interview 13

ROB S.
AGE: 47
OCCUPATION: PAINT AND FINISHING DEPARTMENT COORDINATOR
EDUCATION LEVEL: HIGH SCHOOL DEGREE

KM: How do you envision the end of the world?
RS: How do I think it’s going to fall apart? An asteroid. An asteroid will hit us and we’ll all die a fiery death. Or, its going to be the bird flu. Seriously though, total annihilation, it, gone?
KM: Either the end of the physical earth, or humans. Or both.
RS: As corny as it sounds, I don’t think anything will ever end. There will always be some sort of remnants of us having been around.
KM: You’ve never envisioned some sort of total annihilation?
RS: Aside from some sort of asteroid blowing up the earth. We know that a million years from now the sun will burn out and go supernova and we’ll be gone. Either way people will get together and persist and survive.
KM: You don’t see any sort of pandemic or virus wiping us out?
RS: We had that pandemic in 1918, there have been several pandemics but they won’t wipe us out entirely.
KM: Even if there were to be some huge space impact we’ll call it, how would anyone survive that?
RS: If the impact was large enough you wouldn’t. Based on our millions of years of history there have been several catastrophic life changing impacts, but there will always be some little microbe that will live.