If I ever faced a post-apocalypse scenario, I'd probably straight up die, so I'm not particularly into the idea of society collapsing and things becoming destroyed. The people with the highest chances of survival are the ones who are already rich today, just look at these bunkers that the super rich have built for themselves! Super cozy and probably with well paid security, it's very hard to compete against that. And then there are those with a wealth of survival experience (I think book knowledge isn't enough in these cases, experience knowledge is better), especially farming. I can see people liking the idea of having no responsibilities and getting to have whatever they want but that's so short sighted, if they thought they had no responsibility before just imagine a year after an apocalypse ends and all the easy food is gone.
That said, an apocalypse would probably be a way for nature to recover from being so damaged by human greed but as a human I do not like the idea of an apocalypse as a solution for pollution. For example, as mentioned above, it would probably mean a dead me. They say Genghis Khan (who was probably the embodiment of the apocalypse in his day) killed so many people that there was a large period of time for forest regrowth, but damn that's pretty much apocalypse level of death.
It's so easy to fantasize about zombie apocalypses but that's just so simplistic. On top of the whole living long term thing, apocalypses themselves or things like them probably have intelligent enemies (the Mongols were very tactical), plague (like the Black Death), or straight up things one person can't fight against (nukes or asteroids). Are there movies on those kinds of events? (Actually, I'm aware of one - Grave of the Fireflies, an anime about the ending of the war in Japan, it's really quite sad... naturally, all these events have historical books as well)
Dying... now that's something everyone is qualified to do :D