Lastly, Brent ensures us that the most efficient way to bolster your fear of the comprehensive decimation of the human race in the coming months, or hopefully years, is to live in a Western country.

"Whether you live in London or Los Angeles, you're living under a pretty privileged umbrella, as far as the world goes. Naturally this is all going to feel pretty sudden and horrifying. Keeping a limited worldview will enhance that greatly," Brent said.

Those in developing countries know corruption, deprivation, and governmental instability quite well. So well that they would be unlikely to connect any of these occurrences with the total collapse of the species. They simply continue on with their lives, fight where they can, and spend time with their families and friends. "They survive," says Brent.

The West has historically only experienced such turmoil paired with world wars and mass carnage, so it's not unreasonable to assume the same now. However, in most cases over the past half century or more, the west has not had to live with unrest for prolonged periods.

"So, when you're fretting over the strong likelihood that some maniac in a suit will smack a red button and send us all hurtling into the vast nothingness that is our universe, only to be lost in the vapor of the millions of other planets and species that came before us and will go after, rest easy knowing that you're probably not wrong. Not from your part of the world, anyway," Brent reassured.