39 People Predict Potential Disasters That Most Of The World Are Clueless About

Happens every election in the USA, the sheeple are encouraged to get at each others throats supporting a couple of personalities, whilst they continue to be hoodwinked by the corporations and lobby groups who drive America.

* No free healthcare at point of contact
* Longer working hours than any country in Europe
* Less vacation that almost every country in the world
* C**p food loaded with sugar and chemicals
* Communities set up for cars, not people.

An often overlooked disaster is the rapid decline of insects, especially pollinators such as bees. Although bee extinction is not immediate, it could have a significant impact on global food resources, ecosystems and biodiversity. Without these pollinators, many crops would fail, leading to food shortages and economic disruption. But this important issue has not received enough attention.

As far as global pandemics go, COVID was not nearly as devastating as it could have been. Keep all aspects of COVID the same, but increase its lethality. For context, the bubonic plague killed ~80% of those who became infected.

If something with the same transmitability and lethality as the bubonic plague manifested today...especially now that we've seen how people respond to pandemic controls...we'd be finished.

The ocean fisheries will collapse. Yesterday's trash species are today's featured "catch of the day", will be tomorrow's memory. Harvesting is occurring at unsustainable rates while environmental degradation is steadily reducing habitat and forage ranges.

For many people in developed nations, fish is one option, among many, for protein. For most people in developing nations, it is the cheapest and most accessible option. When it's gone, there will be catastrophic sociopolitical and economic upheavals.

Microplastics. Its being found everywhere in our environment and is already being discovered in the blood/tissues of wildlife and humans. Scientists dont even know what the long term health effects of this will be. I am betting on it being nothing good.

Deep fakes. You may think you can tell the difference now, but as it gets more sophisticated you're not going to be any better at identifying it than your grandparents. What will the world be like when we can't trust anything we see or hear? What will happen when anyone can make a video of you saying anything they want or deny the terrible things they are doing by simply saying it is a seek fake of them? I sincerely believe the consequences will be the end of humanity as we know it.

The amount of methane and other gases that are bubbling up from the arctic is alot more than previously thought. Greenhouse gases on steroids.

AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) slowing/ halting. Melting of northern latitude glaciers are effectively hosing the North Atlantic Ocean with cold fresh water, disrupting the global conveyor belt in the ocean which redistributes heat across the planet. If AMOC slows enough (which we’re looking at happening within decades, not centuries) global weather patterns will shift entirely, Western Europe will freeze, the southern hemisphere will retain much more heat, sea level rise will increase significantly, the oceans will lose some of their capacity to sequester CO2 which in turn increases atmospheric warming, melting of glaciers, etc. generating a positive feedback loop
We really don’t want AMOC to stop lol.

Antibiotic resistance and the emergence not only of super bugs, but pan d**g resistant bacteria. Reports say that by year 2050, deaths by infections caused by super bugs will be one of the leading causes of mortality.

Regrettably, bacteria are evolving faster than we can develop new antibiotics, and the indiscriminate use of antibiotics in the dairy and poultry industries is only worsening the situation.

Perhaps not as big as a natural disaster, but horrifying nonetheless.

ETA: this kind of blew up before I noticed. I wish to correct myself, as some people have pointed out, the real issue is the speed at which we are developing new antibiotics and the willingness to develop them, other d***s are more profitable (e.g. chemotherapy), let us hope that new development in phage therapies or new antibiotics will be available before it is too late.

It's been written about but no one I speak to, even in my hospital, realize it. A very worrying doctor shortage. Not only were there simply more boomers, but they're also aging out and will now need more intensive medical care.

Most people don’t realize how fragile the US (and I’m guessing other countries) food systems are. There are very few smaller family farms, everything is corporate owned. If anything disrupts the distribution channels (a truckers strike, warehouse house strike) most super markets will be put of fresh food in 3-4 days. And when that starts the panic of buying canned food will clear the rest.

Not a doomsday guy, but you can fit a lot of staple foods under your bed if you don’t have pantry space.

Most large scaling farming practices are non renewable. Like we need to continuously find new ways to farm things or we won’t be able to grow food anywhere near the scale we do now.

The over abundance of doomscrolling / posting doomscrolling content and how it wears on people’s psyche negatively to the point where it feels inescapable and utterly trapped from the crippling weight of the world.

Meanwhile, outside, animals don’t know what day of the week it is but they’re happy to be here for the most part.

Let’s all [Seriously] let up.

I’ve worked with water for the majority of my professional career.

If the average American had any idea how uneducated and stupid your average water operator is…

The disaster is already happening. Water and wastewater districts all over the country are lying about what’s in the products coming out of their plants.

The Cascadia Subduction Zone off the coast of the Pacific Northwest will rip again. Depending on the specifics, it will be a really bad day, or an utterly catastrophic day, for the PNW. That will be from the earthquake itself and from the subsequent tsunami. It rips every several hundred years and the last one was in the year 1700. [Here’s an article about it.](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one).

Our carbon sink has been diminishing year after year and it's getting to the point where we are not really filtering much of the carbon out anymore and desperately need to seek out new solutions such as using large algae ponds and so on

No the solution is not just planting trees everywhere, trees are actually relatively inefficient at filtering air and focus needs to be on things such as seeding local ponds and lakes with local algae blooms and other much more efficient and easier to upkeep methods of producing large amounts of air filtering plants.

Yellowstone is an actual super volcano that has blown up every 650,000 years or so.

That’s why it has so many hot springs and geysers… there’s f*****g lava underneath it.

 Its caldera is centered under the lake.

The lake has been getting warmer, and the center of it has risen a little bit.

If I recall correctly, it’s been about 650,000 years since the last time it blew up.

I don’t know how “likely” it is in our lifetime but the Yellowstone supervolcano will, eventually, blow.

There is going to be a serious disaster when you get very high humidity and temperature, it's called a wet bulb event.
Death rates in that city will be very high and if it hits Mecca during the Hajj the death rate will be astronomical.

Solar flare-induced blackout. A massive solar storm could fry electrical grids and satellites, causing a global communications and power blackout.

Human medication / illicit substances are flowing into water systems via sewage and becoming a real threat to our wildlife.