On a lighter note:

Gallery: 10 Best Apocalyptic Vehicles

Global warming. Faltering economies. Dwindling resources. Mankind has finally set in motion environmental, political and social policies that will surely destroy the world as we know it.

Not everyone will fall. Those who survive will roam the scorched wasteland to fend for themselves against the predatory undead while scavenging what they can to survive. The end of days is at hand, and the only question is this: What will you drive when it all comes tumbling down?

Click through our reader submissions to see your best bet for survival.

I think I want number 5 the most. ;)

Of course, then there's the 2012 furor.

The world will come to an end in 2012
Thousands of people in the Netherlands believe in an impending apocalypse in 2012 and are buying survival rations and boats.

The Fat Lady's Aria? Humanity's Last Stand? Or Just Another Apocalypse Soon?

No man knows the hour. But it's interesting, all the same.