doomsday scenario
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- catastropheDevastating, large-scale misfortune
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- nuclearOf atomic energy
- falloutPost-blast atmospheric particles
wasteland · collapse · annihilation · bunker · survivor · asteroid · plague · pandemic · prophecy · countdown · revelation · mushroom cloud · endtimes · cataclysm · oblivion · rapture · prepper · devastation
- what-ifswhat if, hypothetical, thought experiment, speculation, conjecture
outcome valence
doomsday scenariobest-case scenario
Most favorable potential outcome
golden age · paradise · renaissance · heaven on earth · salvation
probability framing
doomsday scenariobest-case scenario
Most favorable potential outcome
silver lining · rosy outlook · blue-sky thinking · wishful thinking
continuity
doomsday scenariostatus quo
Existing condition of affairs
business as usual · continuity · stability · normalcy · steady state