Soooo, pretty much everyone feels like we’re living in a pressure cooker right now, right?
As we continue to spin on this ticking time bomb of civilization, it can be easy to lose sight of what’s happening beyond your own life or country. Redditor AskRedditOG recently took to r/AskReddit with the question, “What’s something that’s about to happen which most people aren’t aware of?” Here’s what some folks had to say:
1. “The water crisis, TBH. Everyone’s talking about AI and politics, but clean water is quietly becoming the next big disaster. It’s already hitting a bunch of places hard and barely anyone is paying attention.”
2. “The ‘buy now, pay later’ bubble is going to pop, and millions of people are suddenly going to find themselves in collections.”
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3. “The dead internet theory has basically already started. The theory outlines that once AI becomes so good that we can’t tell what’s real or fake, the internet will die off as bots just interact with other bots 24/7. There’s no longer anything authentic, and even ‘creators’ lose their jobs to great prompt writing.”
4. “Are we still set to run out of helium, or was that just something I imagined?”
5. “On Nov. 21, you will be able to see Uranus with the naked eye. It will be at its closest point to Earth.”
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6. “I knew someone within the pork industry who was absolutely convinced that within the next five-ish years, there would inevitably be a worldwide pig pandemic that would cause significant pork shortages due to strategic euthanasia. Not sure if they’re right or not, but it’s possible.”
7. “The Great Salt Lake is about to collapse and release massive clouds of toxic dust on Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. This is easily prevented by simply not trying to grow crops and build houses in a desert, but many Utah politicians are heavily involved in real estate.”
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8. “Should we be worried that so many billionaires are apparently building doomsday bunkers?”
9. “Experiments are already underway to use DNA and biological organisms as information carriers and computing devices. Scientists are storing data in DNA strands and creating ‘biological computers.'”
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10. “Insect populations are collapsing around the world, which has dire consequences for agriculture and natural order.”
11. “The collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current. It’s the ocean current that’s responsible for the mild climates in Europe by transporting hot ocean water from the Caribbean up the Gulf Stream. The melting ice caps and glaciers affect the salinity and, therefore, density of the water near the Arctic, interrupting this current. If the AMOC collapses (and it has before), Europe will become inhospitable.”
12. “Sudan is on the verge of collapse. When that happens, it will make the crisis in Gaza seem like nothing.”
13. “On Nov. 7, 2025, the Supreme Court will determine whether they are going to revisit same-sex marriage.”
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14. “I think our economy is closer to collapse than anyone in the media or government is letting on. Yes, Wall Street is thriving, but around 60% of Americans are struggling with basic needs and would be devastated by a $1,500 emergency expense. This is unsustainable, and AI is going to make it MUCH worse very quickly.”
15. “Pretty sure the soil fungus that killed off the Gros Michel banana (the larger and tastier banana we had before the Cavendish bananas we have now) has evolved. The banana species we have now was resistant to this, but it’s likely that in our lifetime, the banana we know now will need to be genetically modified, or it will be gone.”
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16. “World Cup 2026 (in the US cities). People have absolutely no idea how big an event this is going to be, in terms of logistical challenges.”
17. “The broader population being told that it was OK to catch COVID over and over may, in the coming years, start seeing the long-term damage of these infections. There is research coming out about the insane damage it does to your immune system, as well as being linked to a risk of heart disease and stroke.”
“Long COVID has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness in children. There are also studies about how long COVID can cause cognitive decline in much of the population. This many years into the AIDS epidemic, they were still not yet fully aware of how dangerous the disease was, because some of those things take years to become apparent.”
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18. And finally, “The US electricity system is precarious. As Trump cuts clean energy projects, AI takes up more power/energy than we’ve needed before, and much of our infrastructure has been patched, not upgraded, we may start seeing way more brownouts.”
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