If the world was going to end in one year (for everyone) how would you spend that time?

You don't say if we have advanced warning of it ending so, I would live my life as I am now.

 

Give my son the greatest year ever. Spend all my time with him.

Okay, this question just became to much.

 

Kinda dark of you, Skip....

Well, I think I'd work like hell on a time machine to go back and do the stuff I think I should have done...and maybe do all those drugs and women I didn't get to do in college...

 

If people had advanced warning there would probably be ultra caoss!!

 

The best one I ever heard was from a school exam.

Question.
How would you spend your final hours, if doctors told you you only had a few hours to live.

Answer.
Go straight to this school, where every hour feel like a complete eternity.

 

(It must be a given that we had advance notice. Else how would we know we had that year?)

To escape the mega chaos, I'd buy, borrow or steal a sailboat, grab loved ones, and just go where the wind took us.

Which sounds rather tempting in any case.

 

A dark question for dark times. The sad part is that in reality we are not sure to have a year. Live every day like it was your last. No One Here Gets Out Alive!
I would spend time with loved ones. And just hope it was more misinformation.

 

Blimey, what's trump said now, that's got this question running?

 

I agree with princess peedge, spend as much time as possible with family, friends, community. Definitely instead of focusing on growing business/work. Of course I'd still work but the focus and time would be more on the aforementioned.

 

I also would carry on as normal

 

......and hope they were wrong....

 

Probably spend it on hold on the phone trying to reach the 'next agent' at the Social Security administration, who ater 2 hours of waiting for them to pick up has NO ABILITY TO ANSWER A SIMPLE QUESTION!

 

It's like calling the IRS. One nanosecond after you call it's "if you want to make a payment, press one.....everyone else, sit and wait...and maybe by the fourth 'agent' we won't hang up on you"

 

Assuming I am the only one that knows the future, so the world is otherwise going on as is - sell everything, get a bunch of trips, a hippie girl, get a cabin in the woods and shotgun to off ourselves if the end is not easy and sudden.

 

I encourage everyone to read the bible

 

Did, not impressed

 

I would feel perfectly safe, knowing how dozy governments are today. They had probably worked out that self combusting electric cars were going to start a chain reaction.
No doubt they would find a solution within a few weeks, but it was going to involve doubling our taxes.

Do you remember the great ozone scam. It is still making money to this day.

 

I found it amusing that only after DuPont's patents on R12 and R22 refrigerants ran out, they were all of a sudden very bad for the environment. Now they are coming after the common R410 replacement, too for a similar play. Interesting that the new refrigerators and window air conditioners use plain old butane.

 

Fluorocarbons do deplete the ozone layer, but refrigeration was not the problem, since such small quantities leak. It was DuPont who started selling a version of R12 as an aerosol propellant. It was estimated that the average family was releasing the same quantity in one day as their refrigerator's would release in a decade.
Once it was banned, the ozone layer that was supposed to dake 30 years to repair was back to normal within 9 months.

The scam was on the part of the government, charging £30 for every fridge scrapped, since 90% of them were being scrapped because the refrigerant had leaked out.

Following the fire at grenfell tower, fluorocarbon refrigerants are statutory on refrigeration in public buildings and public transport. Particularly underground railway networks.

By far the most efficient refrigerant is ammonia, but following an incident where a leak from a suction pressure gauge in an ice rink in France killed 30 people, it is rarely allowed these days. We had a similar ice rink that I was responsible for in Southampton and it petrified me.