world destruction
End of everything
World destruction is the complete annihilation or devastation of the planet, typically imagined in apocalyptic scenarios involving nuclear war, asteroid impact, or environmental collapse.
The phrase appears in discussions of existential risk, science fiction, and religious prophecy: Scientists warn that nuclear proliferation poses a real threat of world destruction.
In casual use, it can be hyperbolic: My toddler is capable of world destruction if left alone for five minutes.
- apocalypseTotal civilizational collapse
- end of daysProphesied final catastrophe
- cataclysmViolent, large-scale disaster
- annihilationUtter, complete destruction
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
nuclear · nuclear winter · fallout · wasteland · ruins · ashes · devastation · total annihilation · obliteration · mass extinction · mushroom cloud · doomsday · holocaust · collapse · ending · fire · brimstone · meteor
- Flood MythsNoah, deluge, flood myth, biblical flood, flood story
- Mesoamerican MythologyQuetzalcoatl, creation myth, Aztec mythology, Mayan mythology, underworld
world destructionworld peace
Global absence of conflict
earthly paradise · global harmony · utopia · golden age · ecological restoration
world destructionworld-building
Creating fictional universes
Genesis · divine creation · planetary formation · abiogenesis · origin of the universe
world destructionenvironmental conservation
Protecting natural systems sustainably
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