Their own and everybody else's fates are to turn into ash in a nuclear holocaust if the Wonder Chimpâ„¢ gets anywhere near the nuclear codes. The only survivors will be ants and cockroaches.
Oh, come now, that's hyperbole. There are many species of bacteria and archaea that would survive, as would the weird life forms around deep-sea hydrothermal vents. It's entirely possible a number of plants might survive as well.
Granted. But grant me the poetic license. Just because it's "hypobole" (neologism for understatement) doesn't vitiate the central "theme".
