No one knows what the future holds. However, specific indicators may serve as omens for potentially disastrous events, andthese signsmay be noticeable for some.Those people took time to answer this serious Redditquestion: “What’s a disaster that is very likely to happen but not many people know about?” One personpredictedthe possible collapse of ocean fisheries. Anotherforesawan alarming decline of pollinator insects like bees and how it may affect the world’s ecosystems and biodiversity.None of these folks provided their sources or where they got their information, but if you’re a fan ofdoomscrolling, you may enjoy this list.This post may includeaffiliate links.
No one knows what the future holds. However, specific indicators may serve as omens for potentially disastrous events, andthese signsmay be noticeable for some.
Those people took time to answer this serious Redditquestion: “What’s a disaster that is very likely to happen but not many people know about?” One personpredictedthe possible collapse of ocean fisheries. Anotherforesawan alarming decline of pollinator insects like bees and how it may affect the world’s ecosystems and biodiversity.
None of these folks provided their sources or where they got their information, but if you’re a fan ofdoomscrolling, you may enjoy this list.
This post may includeaffiliate links.
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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.
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 loopWe really don’t want AMOC to stop lol.
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..
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 onNo 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.
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The true disease scare is in fungal infections as they are becoming harder and harder to catch, easier to misdiagnose and there are some fungal infections spreading right now that can live on surfaces for months be misidnefied easily and are not susceptible to most anti fungal. Look up candida auris.
Nuclear escalation in Ukraine/Russia.Or a terrorist organization getting their hands on a nuke.All it takes is one.
People don’t really know but coffee beans are on their way to extinction.https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/more-half-all-coffee-species-are-risk-extinction-180971289/https://www.kew.org/about-us/press-media/kew-scientists-reveal-that-60-of-wild-coffeehttps://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/02/many-coffee-species-threatened-with-extinction/.
A prion disease outbreak. There would be little we could do besides try to quarantine everyone who’s affected. If people don’t show symptoms quickly, then that may not be effective. There would be no treating anyone who was affected, destruction through cremation is about all you can do to a prion.
Bacteria will become resistant to our antibiotics.Things contributing to that are countries where they are over the counter, use in animals, s*y substandard ds manufactured in developing countries with inadequate levels of the d**g, prescriptions of antibiotics for colds or flu.
A powerful earthquake along the New Madrid Fault in Missouri. .
China invading Taiwan and a major semiconductor shortage would pretty much bring so many things to a halt.
A solar storm.It basically occurs when the sun ejects a massive burst of solar wind and magnetic fields into space. When these reach earth, they can interact with our plant’s magnetic field, creating geomagnetic storms.One historical precedent would be The Carrington Event of 1859, it’s the most “famous” one. It caused widespread telegraph outages and even fires. At the time, electrical infrastructure was minimal.If a similar event happened today, the impact would be far greater due to our reliance on modern technology.It’s likely because solar storms are a natural part of the sun’s cycle, with the sun going through peaks of activity (solar maximums) roughly every 11 years. NASA and other space agencies actively monitor space weather, but the general public is largely unaware of its existence or the risksThe Carrington Event was rare but statistically we may expect similar occurrences once every 100-200 years. Given the Carrington Event was around 150 years ago, we can expect another one “soon” based on these facts.
We’re running out of the mineral that curling stones are made out of. Eventually we won’t be able to enjoy curling at all in it’s current form. The winter Olympics will never be the same.
Historically, bird flu has a 52% death rate in humans.A huge avian flu outbreak in cows started in Texas earlier this year, and is currently spreading across California.https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-10-20/as-bird-flu-outbreaks-rise-piles-of-dead-cows-become-morbid-central-valley-tableauUC Davis: 1 in 5 milk samples from grocery stores test positive for bird flu — but it’s safe because of pasteurization. (Let’s not talk about raw milk which is not pasteurized.)If you want a real life conspiracy:Inside the Bungled Bird Flu Response, Where Profits Collide With Public Healthhttps://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/inside-the-bungled-bird-flu-responseSome quotes from that story:* “Since the H5N1 bird flu virus was first reported in California in early August, 124 dairy herds and 13 people — all dairy workers — have been infected."* “The majority of dairy workers in California have no protections. Most of them are immigrants. And I would say at least half of them are undocumented,” … “These are folks that don’t have a particular relationship of trust with state and federal government officials.”* “A lot of people have it,” said a woman working behind the cash register at Tipton’s Dollar General, one of the few stores in this small, agricultural community right off of Highway 99.The biggest fear is that all those people who have it in the community then get another flu and then they breed a new avian flu variant that is super transmissible in humans, which then comes with the 52% death rate.For context, COVID’s death rate was about 2.1 to 2.3%.Avian flu subreddit: r/H5N1_AvianFlu.
“The Big One” in northern Utah. We live on/near a fault line that rarely produces earthquakes. A 5.4 with a ton of aftershocks happened, so some awareness has been raised, but there’s countless buildings/structures in Salt Lake County alone that will collapse in an earthquake.
Water scarcity. Not because of climate change.Because of economic, infrastructure problemsEarthquakesWildfires.
This is kind of a man made disaster specific to the US, but nursing shortage. With boomers retiring and then becoming increasingly sick, current nurse numbers don’t look great. Most of the numbers I’ve forgotten as I wrote a paper on it in nursing school, but I can’t imagine it looks any better now.
Earthquakes are rare in Boston, but if one similar to the Cape Ann earthquake in 1755 were to occur today on a much more populated North Shore of Boston,the damage could be catastrophic for that area. That quake was quite possibly related to the horrible earthquake a few weeks earlier in Portugal, straight across the Atlantic. If another big one hits there, New England could be next!
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