14 places to go if the world is going to end

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December's weather has been pretty much apocalyptic in some parts of the world. Huge areas of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina and the UK have been heavily hit by floods.

Add to this the devastating, unseasonal tornadoes in Texas, and the crazily high temperatures on the east coast of the US and in continental Europe.

Man-made climate change is starting to take its toll, and the world will soon officially have warmed up by 1°C since 1900, causing massive changes to our planet.

There's also the rise of Islamic State, and increasing tensions between Russia and Turkey after the latter shot down a Russian plane in November. All in all, the world is in a bit of trouble.

Humanity has already survived a financial crisis, and warnings of the Mayan Apocalypse in the last decade, but if 2016 is the year the world does finally start to collapse, we think you should know where to head to in order to survive.

We've selected places that we expect will remain fortresses of stability, safety, and prosperity no matter what the world throws at them.

This article is based on a previous post by Joe Weisenthal