Reporting on Doomsday Scenarios | 60 Minutes Full Episodes

From 2022, Jon Wertheim's report on "preppers" who are gearing up for extreme catastrophes. From 2008, Scott Pelley's visit to the "doomsday vault" inside a mountain near the North Pole, built to warehouse backup copies of all the world's crops. From 2023, Pelley's interviews with scientists who say the planet is in the midst of a sixth mass extinction with Earth's wildlife running out of places to live. And also from 2023, Bill Whitaker's story on virus hunters who are searching for new pathogens to help prevent another pandemic.

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0:00 Intro
0:11 Preppers
13:22 Doomsday Vault
25:57 The Vanishing Wild
39:10 Pathogen X

[eoygrps]

I am 70 years old & physically disabled, Im not afraid to die. If the end of the world happens you will find me sitting on my front porch with my bong & pitcher of Margaritas.

[Rayrockny]

It's 4:53am and I'm up watching this when I have work in the morning. That's the real doomsday.

[LeanardWashington]

"Prepping" is just the simple realization that 99% of people fully rely on convenience and society operating smoothly. Our little man made ecosystem is very temperamental. It doesn’t make you crazy to be prepared to be self sufficient for a month or two.

[musicalcontessa]

My mom was a firm believer in the collection of seeds and I collect and store all sorts of seeds because she taught us to do so, and taught us from early childhood how important this practice is for the future of mankind and to pass this knowledge on to our children. She had grown up on a farm and possessed a tremendously wonderful green thumb.

[missesraisin]

I think knowing how to read a map, trap a small animal, or sew, cooking, basic human needs that most of used to learn in school or camping with our family. How to drive anything with wheels, or cleaning dead animals are just great to know. I wish our country still wanted kids to know these basic living skills.

[shutincharlie]

What we call prepping today our great grandparents just called life. Preparation to care for yourself and family without government assistance in hard times. Settle down folks, it's just good common sense

[filhodarosa]

Up until the late 1970’s, most people living in Portugal were “preppers.” They were peasant farmers, who grew their own food and most had no electricity or running water. Most didn’t have their own cars. They could survive for years without relying on supermarkets or utilities that were only sporadically provided and unequally-distributed by governments. I lived this life as a child. It only took one generation and moving into the E.U. (which had a vested interest in destroying traditional peasant agriculture, in order to open up new markets for its multinationals) to make the average citizen in this country completely dependent for their survival on the capitalist and industrialized system.

[marklayman]

I was in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. Society fell apart in 24 hours. No fire department no police department no phones no electricity.. 24 houses and people were driving around in trucks with guns. 24 hours is all it took. Be prepared

[brandilking]

I’m not a prepper, but my husband and I were both in the military. Because we moved every 2-3 years, we had our “red folder” (a zippered binder) that had passports, marriage/birth certificates, car/house titles, ssn cards, insurance cards, etc. We put all our photos on an external hard drive, and it was always in the same place everywhere we moved. A fireproof box in our bedroom closet. It was like that for the 26 years in, and we still do it today.

[robertsimington]

Let's not forget how important physical fitness and self defense is.

[brokendolly]

I had prepared a little bit before covid, when everyone was shut in, I was SO grateful that I did. That convinced ME that being as prepared as you can for what ever may suddenly come, is absolutely essential. Didn't have a lot of what I LIKED to eat...but I didn't go hungry.

[NorthlandSLC]

We had a house fire two years ago. We lived out of our go bags after loosing everything we owned. Thank goodness we had them ready by the door. Prepping isn’t just for collapse or community wide calamity, it can help us with individual emergency like a fire or loosing a job.

[bonniepoole]

When my parents were 77, they lived out on a peninnsula on the coast of Maine (beautiful spot.) They had big snow storms that winter and the power and phones went out for 2 weeks after one such storm. When they finally got phone connection, I called and asked if they were OK. Mom said, "Oh yeah! Dad's got wth wood-stove keeping us warm and I just made porkchops, broccoli and potatoes on the stove for dinner." Snow-bound but A-OK!

[PixelsNGreenTea]

What I've always thought was weird is our ancestors not too long ago always "prepped" by gardening, storing/preserving food, knowing how to build a fire, hunting, fishing, etc. Now before Covid, it was laughed at and looked down on. It is wild that grown adults would think it's okay to rely on strangers (the government) when they don't even know your name!

[midwestern_jeepguy]

I grew up on a 200 acre farm that my grandpa did the same thing. He always said don’t buy bio engineered seeds. Keep reusing the seeds. We have here for corn so you beans, oats, wheat, alfalfa etc… dry them, and store them till next spring. Most farmers don’t do that now. Grandpa got by with a a team of four horses at first, then bought a 1956 Farmall H and a two bottom plow., 8 foot desk, etc. to go along with it. I remember as a kid instead of spring chemicals on the corn, we fitted the cultivator attachments on the H and I was able to cultivate four rows at a time sometimes six with the extensions. Grandpa never borrowed from the bank to do farming. He used what he had paid cash for his equipment, and always had seed available the next spring to plant. Tons of farmers had to go to the bank to borrow money to put their crops in the spring. On top of chemicals and fertilizers.

[Mrdriver]

The problem with being a doomsday prepper is that they all have the same mindset of "bugging out." If something major is happening, it's not a good idea to get on the road with everyone else. Your home should be the bunker or something. Way safer and saves so much time

[mickeyglenn]

Funny, when people have been stockpiling, become self sufficient (energy) and prep, we are called nuts, crazy, conspiracy theorist's. Yet, a millionaire buys an island, walls off their mansion or closes themselves off, well, thats called being eccentric.

[johnrobi]

When the government tells you to be prepared to go without help for several days, It'll take them months to get organized.

[shutincharlie]

She has a years worth of food but can barely walk across the room!! Be physically prepared and fit in hard times

[Marine-px]

I've got just about everything I need. I've stockpiled non perishables, two safes worth of firearms and ammo. Survival books, medical books, over the counter medicines, gas masks, storm shelter, plastic tarps, tape, etc. Hamm radio, solar chargers, solar panels, water purification system, cases of wiskey, wine, etc. I've made a list and completed those lists on just about everything I can think of I'll need. So, I feel confident I can survive most long-term emergencies for a couple of years. Depending on how bad whatever disaster comes my families way, it then comes down to defending what we have, and that's a scary thought. Good luck folks.