In the Netflix show Peripheral they use gallows humor to call the Apocalypse “The Jackpot”. The Jackpot has four stages over about 40 years that decimates the human population leading into the 22nd century.
1. Electric grid failure in North America and months long blackouts, thanks to hackers. This becomes commonplace worldwide.
2. Pandemic. This one is particularly nasty. It attacks the liver and spleen filling the body cavity with blood until the abdomen explodes.
3. Environmental catastrophe that leads to great famine and mass die off of species.
4. Nuclear war. Right Wing Domestic Terrorist Gun Toting Bible Thumping Vaccine Denying Militia Dudes blow up a missile silo in North Carolina and somehow America is destroyed because of it. I should read the book for details.
Also interestingly, sometime before all this happens Texas gains independence through a war of some kind.
Anyway, that all sounds kinds familiar and predictive programming is a thing.