10+ Crisises In The Next Decade We Should Pay More Attention To According To Reddit Users
"Every disaster movie starts with a scientist being ignored," echoed by many across the internet. This sentiment was brought about by the recent climate crisis protest led by over 1,000 scientists worldwide.
Peter Kalmus, a NASA climate scientist, along with other scientists, chained themselves to the JP Morgan Chase building in Los Angeles. In a viral video, Kalmus pleads in a shaky voice about the ecological catastrophe we are about to face.
He lamented how scientists have been warning all of us for decades and their sentiment seemingly fell on deaf ears. He said it's time to stop ignoring the experts because humanity is quite literally about to lose everything.
Historically, scientists stick to cold, hard facts and present the data with a purely objective approach. This recently started to shift because the data they are interpreting represents a dire and frightening reality for all of us.
Kalmus and his fellow protestors were arrested by the police clad in riot gear following their protest. The protest wasn't just an isolated cry for help in Los Angeles.
Members of the Scientist Rebellion staged a protest and chained themselves to the Whitehouse fence. In various parts of the world, Panamanian scientists protested in several embassies, activists glued themselves to a bridge in Germany, and in Malawi, they held a teach-in at a prominent university.
In an act of selflessness and deep compassion, climate activist Wynn Bruce set himself on fire on the steps of the Supreme Court of the United States. His friend, Kritee Kanko, said on her Twitter account: "This is a deeply fearless act of compassion to bring attention to [the] climate crisis.”
The brave protests of the scientists sparked an online movement worldwide. In support of their cause, people started the "Let The Earth Breathe" campaign to increase awareness.
It will take more than a hashtag and individual sacrifices to avert the oncoming climate crisis. Actual change must be mandated by our government to curb the carbon emissions of the world's top polluters — the capitalist companies.
As if the world isn't already on the edge of the cliff, there are still other catastrophes people believe we have to pay attention to. We really did box ourselves into a metaphorical corner, didn't we?
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If your palms aren't sweaty yet and your panic is still bearable, keep on reading to see the answers to this question
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1. Water shortage and countries fighting over water rights
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People will look for the country with the most natural water reserves
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Pretty sure there are stops before agriculture gets truly and utterly effed, have we seen any?
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Type Flint water crisis and Nestle on Google
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Canada has 20% of the world's fresh water reseerves and not only do they have to worry about other countries invading them for their reserves, they will also have to fend off corporations.
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2. Fertilizer shortage didn't even hit the news
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Garden supply owners and farmers know about this
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How could there be a shortage if it's a large scale production?
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We depleted the natural resources and the chemicals used to produce it are way too expensive for the producers and the consumers to buy
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Sri Lanka has an ongoing economic crisis and is on the brink of bankruptcy
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Nothing to panic about at all
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People get scared when they see GMO on their produce not knowing what it truly means. No one buying GMO produce means corporations not funding it for further research because it's not profitable
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3. Some superbug will eventually emerge
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4. Those creepy crawlies we so easily swat away holds our ecosystem together
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Have you noticed this phenomenon as well?
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Maybe the car designers are just making the windshields more angular?
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Apparently not, they also factored that in and conducted an experiment
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5. Ocean acidification and it's disastrous ramifications
Coral bleaching kills corals and makes them look like dry bones which would be apt in this scenario
The disaster has been happening for years now and are we doing enough to combat it?
6. Not enough savings even after decades of hard work
You can work 3 jobs and penny-pinch as much as you want and still be one medical expense away from financial ruin
Sounds like a nightmare to be honest
The 120-year-old 1% will probably raffle these life extending treatments just to have common folks like us work for them. Keep it.
7. Rapidly declining krill and phytoplankton population
Okay, what? We're not nearly doing enough to save the world, are we?
8. Plastic pollution
Microplastic in our human body and we don't have enough data how it affects our systems
Oh god. Just like in the Lorax, some rich douche is about to sell "pure" air
9. Another housing crisis in the near future
Read somewhere that "subscription," AKA renting, is also the future for the housing market. We should read more about feudalism and how that turned out.
Soon enough, they'll raise rent prices and most of us will be homeless. They really do want to squeeze every penny out of us worker bees.
10. Sand shortage
Saudi Arabia is one of the main importers of sand from Australia
Have you seen the "sand avalanche" video? It looks so smooth and collapses as soon as you step on it
11. Not enough professionals in some trades like teaching and the healthcare industry due to the high stress environment and low wages
People not wanting to study plumbing, carpentry, etc.
Turns out people like to be compensated well for the incredibly difficult jobs they are doing. Who knew liveable wage was such a controversial idea?
Do not read this at night before sleeping. Seriously.
In the grand scheme of things, will the test even matter?
Life is just on constant hard mode right now
Like what the climate scientists say, the time to act is now; not next year, not tomorrow, it's now. There's no amount of individual action that we can do to tilt the needle back into the safe zone.
We need to act collectively and put pressure on our governments to take this crisis seriously. Humanity is at risk and it is terrifying; it's the kind of fear that encourages action and change, so we must act now.
