If you rightly think it could be any of the following:
- climate change
- natural (or man-made) disasters
- war (especially the nuclear kind)
- another and-even-worse global pandemic
- economic inequality
- (read and weep at how much richer the richest 1% of the population became)
- the erosion of social support networks to help people deal with poverty, etc.,
- fill in the blank with anything I erronously forgot
you would actually be quite wrong, because according to too many folk the biggest threat to humanity right now is the miniscule portion of the population (less than 1%) who would like to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity.
Alternatively (complementarily?), it could also be the "woke mind virus" that saviour DeSantis (alternative name DeSadist) is determined to stamp out. Both in Florida, and if enough [insert noun here as any of mine would be both snarky and rude] vote the "right" way, the entire United States of America.
So, whatever issue you picked from the list above (you silly nincompoop), you obviously don't see what will REALLY be humanity's demise.
p.s. I'm working on a longer post, but thought I'd publish this right away to give you time to reconsider the actual cause of the upcoming doom and prepare accordingly. ;)
Love your writing. I don’t open 90% of my emails, but I always open yours.
Sorry I'm so far behind - and I'm not going to catch up much right now - but as I sit in my Berlin apartment through yet another hot summer with no a/c...I'm choosing heat. Snort! Seriously though, we human beings are driving so many species extinct through our contribution to a planet that already has its own warming cycles....and we're now (globally, not only the EU from what I've read) in another seriously dangerous summer of heat and drought. It makes me sick to see us destroying the planet. I don't have a very big carbon footprint (I know you don't either), but we're as a species also using up and/or ruining our planet's water, soil and air. But tell that to those people you're referring to in this post and they will not only make fun of you, but also get disproportionately angry about someone saying something they supposedly don't believe in. I dunno, I say let's give AI a crack at running things. They sure wouldn't do worse than we have. 😆
"Or it is just a stubborn didn't-believe-it-before-so-not-gonna-ever-admit-I-was-wrong stance?" - When you see the way those people talk, I'm betting it's exactly that (arrow pointing up) reason.
The world is definitely in a pivotal time right now and it's scary to see the levels of ignorance in 2023.
I see on the news that there are more than 800 wildfires burning in Canada right now. I am getting really sick of seeing the "it's not global warming, it is bad forest management". You can totally see that there are so many people who pick up that ball and run with it, having zero regard for the fact that the conditions that are leading to more and bigger of these fires all over North America are man made. Don't ya just wanna shake people and yell "WAKE UP"!!! 😐
Every summer I'm shocked all over again at how much of North America is burning. And I have to try hard to get it out of my mind. Trees and plants can even run. To think of all the suffering is bad enough, but the aftermath and the contribution of the fires to an existing problem that is, sadly, as you pointed out, beyond repair already is just too much. I get really mad at all the petitions I have to sign to protect old growth forest for example from becoming toilet paper. Humanity overall seems to have become something unrecognizable as belonging to earth. We (overall) don't treat each other well, or any other creature on the planet or the planet itself well. Deniers of all kinds are criminal. 😤
Oh good grief...I didn't think I'd written enough to need to proofread that last comment. "Can't run". Trees and plants can't run. For crying out loud.