10+ Crises In The Next Decade We Should Pay More Attention To According To Reddit Users

Reddit users have a way of turning everyday worries into a full-blown disaster checklist, and this one is no exception. From water shortages to housing trouble, the thread quickly spirals into a long list of crises people think deserve more attention.

The conversation pulls together fears about climate change, supply chains, public health, and the systems people rely on every day. Some of the comments are blunt, some are darkly funny, and all of them point to the same uneasy idea, the next decade could get messy fast.

Here are the crises Reddit users think we should be paying closer attention to.

If your palms aren't sweaty yet and your panic is still bearable, keep on reading to see the answers to this question

TheRed_Knight

1. Water shortage and countries fighting over water rights

nothingbeatagoodshit

People will look for the country with the most natural water reserves

iamdrinking

Pretty sure there are stops before agriculture gets truly and utterly messed up; have we seen any?

theoutlet

Type Flint water crisis and Nestlé on Google

c3ntur1o

Canada has 20% of the world's fresh water reserves, and not only do they have to worry about other countries invading them for their reserves, but they will also have to fend off corporations.

starx9, Pinkiepie1111

That water anxiety only gets bigger from here.

2. Fertilizer shortage didn't even hit the news

Goukaruma

Garden supply owners and farmers know about this

GreatStateOfSadness

How could there be a shortage if it's large-scale production?

Trirefringent

We depleted the natural resources, and the chemicals used to produce it are far too expensive for both producers and consumers to buy.

LoserScientist

Sri Lanka has an ongoing economic crisis and is on the brink of bankruptcy

cheesesandsneezes

Nothing to panic about at all

LoserScientist

People get scared when they see GMO on their produce, not knowing what it truly means. No one buying GMO produce means corporations won't fund it for further research because it's not profitable.

LoserScientist

Then the thread moves straight into the stuff people really do not want to think about.

3. Some superbug will eventually emerge

Representative-Fig96

4. Those creepy crawlies we so easily swat away hold our ecosystem together

LeroyBadBrown

Have you noticed this phenomenon as well?

b-monster666

Maybe the car designers are just making the windshields more angular?

Form84

Apparently not; they also factored that in and conducted an experiment.

Apophyx

5. Ocean acidification and its disastrous ramifications

patricksaurus

Coral bleaching kills corals and makes them look like dry bones, which would be apt in this scenario.

LoserScientist

The disaster has been happening for years now, and are we doing enough to combat it?

deprimeradblomkol, LoserScientist

After that, the comments get a lot more personal.

For a reality check, these historical moments show the past was anything but boring.

6. Not enough savings even after decades of hard work

carelessOpinions

You can work three jobs and penny-pinch as much as you want, and still be one medical expense away from financial ruin.

restlessbish

Sounds like a nightmare, to be honest.

throneofthornes

The 120-year-old 1% will probably raffle these life-extending treatments just to have common folks like us work for them. Keep it.

BrockDiggles

7. Rapidly declining krill and phytoplankton populations

Dense-Independent-66

Okay, what? We're not nearly doing enough to save the world, are we?

Demonae

8. Plastic pollution

Zrakoplovvliegtuig

Microplastics in our human bodies, and we don't have enough data on how they affect our systems.

archipenko, Cats-Steal-Things

Oh God. Just like in the Lorax, some rich person is about to sell "pure" air.

aconfusedcanadien

By this point, the list is basically a stress test.

9. Another housing crisis in the near future

Phil330

I 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.

Zrakoplovvliegtuig

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.

ThrowawaySleepingPup

10. Sand shortage

MrButternuss

Saudi Arabia is one of the main importers of sand from Australia.

crusafo

Have you seen the "sand avalanche" video? It looks so smooth and collapses as soon as you step on it.

seaworthy-sieve

11. Not enough professionals in some trades like teaching and the healthcare industry due to the high-stress environment and low wages

MrWizard311

People are not wanting to study plumbing, carpentry, etc.

Antamyst

Turns out people like to be compensated well for the incredibly difficult jobs they are doing. Who knew a livable wage was such a controversial idea?

TheRed_Knight

And just when it seems like the thread is done, it keeps going.

Do not read this at night before sleeping. Seriously.

Edirol1018

In the grand scheme of things, will the test even matter?

adbot-01

Life is just on constant hard mode right now.

bringitonlife

The thread ends on the same note it started with, a lot of dread and not much optimism.

Like what the climate scientists say, the time to act is now; not next year, not tomorrow, but now. There's no amount of individual action that we can take 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.

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