They destroyed it all Simmons, those damn stupid bastards, they blew it all up! Damn them! Damn them to hell! Those damn dirty apes!!!
Calm down Grif, we don't know that the whole world is like this.
Yes it is, they destroyed it all. I guess the society of men just wasn't meant to survive.
Hey how about this, how about we explore more than 2 square miles before we jump to any conclusions?
It was definitely nuclear weapons, that's what did it. And the explosions caused massive power outages that caused the failsafe to fail, which released a super bacteria from a secret lab!
Oh come on!
Then that caused a human plague, and as the victims died, they rose from the dead 12 hours later to roam the Earth and feast on human flesh!
WHAT???
A handful of witty survivors from all walks of life were able to keep the legions of the infected radioactive undead at bay, using only their wits and an inexplicable comphrehension of agricultural science and engineering. Everything was looking good. And that's when the meteor hit!
I think you just quoted every crappy Hollywood apocalypse movie ever.
Hollywood doesn't understand apocalypse. They think that just one thing from everyday life goes away and that changes everything. Like in Road Warrior it was gas, and in Waterworld it was land.
What went away in The Matrix?
Sunlight.
I thought the missing element was plot.
I'm talking about Matrix 1.
Oh, right.