What will happen if the moon started to move closer to the earth?

If the moon started to move closer to the earth, for e.g. one meter per year, I suppose that it would be accelerating towards the earth and then, eventually, will crash to it.

I suppose that if it comes too slowly, life on earth will be extinct many years before the crash. But if it approaches fast enough, humans will be able to experience it.

What is a rough minimum speed needed so it would crash into the earth in a span that humans would be able to survive all the other consequences of the moons approaching and live enough to experience the crash?

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