Throughout history, people have stocked up in fear of the world ending.
(Remember the toilet paper shortage at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic?)
Luckily, it isn’t alldoom and gloom.
“It’s all optimism with science,” he said during an exclusive interview with The List.
The series covers everything from a massive comet hurtling toward the Earth to an out-of-control dust storm.
Yet there’s one disaster that Nye is most afraid of actually happening.
“All the electricity in the world would shut down.”
It turns out, this catastrophic event has happened once before in human history.
Many of these were causing telegraph offices to completely shut down.
“Now, there are so many wires running everywhere all the time,” Nye said.
“No more refrigeration, no more cars, no more virtual movie interviews,” Nye said.
“It would be a drag really fast.”
