With global warming hogging the limelight, and Nostradamus predicting our impending demise, This excerpt from Radar Magazine's February issue explores the other apocalyptic scenarios threatening to do us in.

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From transgenic experiments destined to go awry to the imminent culmination of the Mayan calendar's 13th baktun cycle, we'll have to dodge a hell of a lot of bullets to make it to the next century. In a cold panic, Radar sifted through mountains of data, interviewed the world's top experts, and prayed to several long-forgotten deities in an attempt to assemble a list of the planet's most pressing doomsday scenarios and, more important, your best bets for staying alive.

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BARREL FEVER
True, black gold hasn't exactly been Earth's best friend. But it would be highly inconvenient to have it run out before we find a replacement. The theory of peak oil—that global oil production will eventually enter a steep, terminal decline—was introduced in 1956 by the late geophysicist M. King Hubbert. "Think Rwanda, Baghdad, post-Katrina New Orleans, on a global and permanent scale," says Matt Savinar, the man behind the website Life After the Oil Crash. He envisions a world of freaky inflation, beluga-level food prices, and wars between countries desperate for oil. In other words, time to start investing in buggy whips.

How to Survive: According to James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency, people residing in regions with plenty of railroads, moderate climates, and farmland—like Oregon and New England—will be in better shape than those who live in, say, L.A.

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HONEY HOLOCAUST
Remember the buzz about killer bees? So do we, fondly. Because it turns out bees are really important, but since late 2006 they've been disappearing for reasons nobody can quite explain. And it's not just honey supplies that will suffer if the bees bite it. You can also kiss your fruits and veggies good-bye. "You could have the perfect field, soil, and sun, and if the pollinator was not there you'd have a vine and no fruit," says Dr. Jeff Pettis, head USDA bee researcher. With honeybees pollinating more than a quarter of the world's food supply, that's a lot of empty vines (and stomachs). The financial impact of a bee-free season would be $75 billion. Perhaps Albert Einstein put it best: "If the bee disappears from the surface of the Earth, man will have no more than four years to live."

How to Survive: Become part of the solution—starter hives are selling for $215 on betterbee.com.