With worrying global trends like climate change, pollution, increasingly divided or radical governments, economic woes, misinformation and disinformation everywhere, dangerous health crises and so on, what do you think - how much time do we have before “it all comes crashing down”? What will end life or our way of life as we know it first?

Or do you think we’ll make it? If so, how?

  • ianovic69@feddit.uk
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    4 months ago

    While most here are probably not wrong about changes that could well happen and our societies adapting to them, I can’t help but worry about food shortages.

    We aren’t very far away from the point where insect populations start to collapse. If we can’t reverse that or even slow it down, food will follow quite quickly.

    The implications are horrifying and even if humanity survives, it won’t be pretty.

    If by about 2035 the causes aren’t controlled and the problems slowed down enough to prevent insect extinction, the following 10 - 20 years will see food decrease to levels that won’t sustain us.

    After that, the decline will be so rapid and so brutal that no one will be making notes.

    I hope that doesn’t happen.

    • greyw0lv@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Fun thing about large scale food scarcity. If you have a calorie deficit for a few months, you don’t anymore.

      On a serious note. Habit destruction, warming, pollution poses a very serious risk to food stability and could very well lead to famine.

      • ianovic69@feddit.uk
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        4 months ago

        Yes, and global famine is a terrible prospect.

        Personally, I’ll miss the birds.