Okay, okay, it's all science fiction, but the new show at Britain's Tate Modern museum, by French artist Dominique Gonzalez Foerster, is truly shaking the city, offering visitors bleak images 50 years in the future.
Foerster has turned the Tate into a refugee shelter for a collapsed civilization, with 200 bunk bends, and not-so-subtle clues of the bombings, earthquakes, famine, floods and alien invasion that may yet come.
All in all, compared to a subprime mortgage collapse and a looming worldwide depression, it's a heartwarming tale.