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[[WMG: The family eventually [[EatTheDog ate their horse]]]]

yellow stone (or any ''supervolcano'' for that matter)is a good fit. it won't just effect America but it's capable of covering the WHOLE planet in dust and debris for years if not decades. that's long enough to starve the planet of sunlight, thus decimating vegetation and wild life.

Similar to the above alien theory, This planet was a earth colony that got abandoned after the UNSC withdrew leaving the rest to die a slow and painful death along with the planet. Maybe it wasn't glassing perse' but maybe a Type of DepopulationBomb. The Covenant didn't have time (or the resources after a previous battle) to glass it so they sloppily used another weapon and left.

I mean, they travel across half of America, but there's more to Earth than just that. Africa? South America? Antartica? The Marianas Trench? I mean, the author keeps most of the book feasible, so I wouldn't be surprised if Greenland or Australia would have taken a pass. America (and likely China and most other major world superpowers) just got royally screwed with the crap end of the stick. That said, it wouldn't make the novel any less post-apocalyptic and depressing, as the boy probably won't ever hear of any surviving patches of Earth, even if they DID exist.
* We don't even know what happend in the verse of ''The Road''. All we know is that there was no summer for as much as ten years. And if there was no summer in States for such long time, there was no summer anywhere else, that's how climate works. The impact of this climatic disturbance (''if'' it was climatic disturbance) was enough to knock down one of the most populous countries into no-mans land ihabited with sparse groups of cannibals. Even if we assume that there are some nicer places than US, they are as much screwed by the sole fact of no vegetation.

* So who was struggeling with it so much?

* I don't know, Film/TheBookOfEli was pretty explicit about taking place in a post nuclear apocalypse. Also I'm no expert on this, but if this post apocalyptic world has the worst thing on the West Coast being San Francisco's impressive lack of fog while the East Coast is a barren hell of ash and death then I think there's something seriously wrong.
** In a doomed attempt to strenghten this idea you can always assume that ''The Road'' takes place right after the war, hence the nuclear winter. Then you have ''The Book of Eli'', many years after the war. Depending on the scale of the conflict, nuclear winter can take from a year to fifteen, so this crazy merging of universes could make sense. So instead of place being a factor, time is.

This situation is more extreme than a nuclear winter, and evrthing will eventually choke because of closed air circulation. It's also preventing useful light from getting to plants.

* Maybe... but ''Literature/TheRoad'' seems to be more of a case of a global cataclysm. ''Take Shelter'' seems to be more of a localized disaster that primarily effects people turning them insane. If anything, it's probably closer to being connected to ''[[Film/TheCrazies1975 The]] [[Film/TheCrazies2010 Crazies]]''.

* Maybe... but Literature/TheRoad seems to be more of a case of a global cataclysm. Take Shelter seems to be more of a localized disaster that primarily effects people turning them insane. If anything it's probably closer to being connected to Film/TheCrazies.

[[WMG: ''The Road'' is a sequel/prequel/sidequel/midquel to…]]

* Film/{{Finch}}

[[WMG: ''The Road'' is a sequel/prequel/sidequel to…]]

* Film/TheBookOfEli
* Film/MadMax
* Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}
* Film/TakeShelter
* Film/{{Idiocracy}}

* WesternAnimation/{}Wizards}}

* Film/SilentNight2021

* Homestuck

* Film/ReignOfFire

[[WMG: Everyone really ''is'' [[Main/EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Jesus in Purgatory]].]]

So there's [[Main/AfterTheEnd an unspecified disaster]] that happened at some point before the book starts. It killed off [[Main/ThatPoorPlant trees]], animals, [[Main/MemeticBadAss cockroaches]], [[Main/{{AI}} sarcastic pimp-bots that look like Jude Law]] -- and yet somehow a handful of humans lived through it. This is a huge clue that we're not supposed to take this as literally After The End; all the human characters are actually dead. The boy is actually an angel and he is helping the father [[Main/AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to Heaven]] (remember all that business about "carrying the light"). The father's death was actually his ascension, and the angel/boy will go on to save the people who show up at the very end.

The ''Mad Max'' movies deal with the cataclysm in the initial stages when society has collapsed, people are running around like chickens with their heads cut off, but supplies are still relatively plentiful. ''The Road'' deals with what happens after the excitement dies down and all of the running around has exhausted the majority of whatever supplies were still available.

** YouFailGeographyForever - atmosphere is ''all about closed circulation''.

[[WMG: [[ChronoTrigger The Future Refused to Change]].]]

* Maybe... but Literature/TheRoad seems to be more of a case of a global cataclysm. Take Shelter seems to be more of a localized disaster that primarily effects people turning them insane. If anything it's probably closer to being connected to TheCrazies.

* Maybe... but Literature/TheRoad seems to be more of a case of a global cataclysm. TakeShelter seems to be more of a localized disaster that primarily effects people turning them insane. If anything it's probably closer to being connected to TheCrazies.

[[WMG: The Planet is actually a partially glassed [[{{Halo}} UNSC Colony]]]]

[[WMG: TheBookOfEli takes place in the same universe]]

* I don't know, TheBookOfEli was pretty explicit about taking place in a post nuclear apocalypse. Also I'm no expert on this, but if this post apocalyptic world has the worst thing on the West Coast being San Francisco's impressive lack of fog while the East Coast is a barren hell of ash and death then I think there's something seriously wrong.

The world ended in 1999? Very plausible. Bleak, desolate world nearly devoid of life? Check. A few ragged survivors, all slowly starving to death? Check. Mutants and robots running rampant? ''Not yet''. Perhaps, there are automated factories still running, independently, developing AI over a few centuries and then, eventually, creating the genocidal robots and other advanced technology. The "mutants" are the sparse lifeforms that somehow manage to adapt for survival in a world with almost no resources.