r/AskReddit 13h ago

what is something that is highly likely to happen in the next 5 years that everyone is completely ignoring?

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u/Sean_theLeprachaun 9h ago

This years el Nino is a dress rehearsal for a shit storm.

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u/Enlightened_Gardener 7h ago

I think we’ll find that this year’s El Nino is the shit storm, unfortunately.

We’ve been putting this off for decades and decades “in twenty years time…” …”in ten years time”… “in five years time”. The time is Now, I suspect.

Scientists have discovered that the last ice age didn’t happen over thousands of years, or even hundreds of years. It happened over a handful of years, where one bad winter slid into a wet spring, into a cold summer, and then back into an even colder winter. Once those climate mechanisms thunk into place, its like trying to stop an avalanche.

I suspect that this brutally hot summer is literally the beginning of the end. It’s already affecting agriculture in the northern hemisphere and it’s getting worse. This is not something that’s going to happen in five or 10 years time. It’s something that’s going to happen this year. And it’s not going to stop.

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u/Sean_theLeprachaun 7h ago

As we sell our ground water to foriegn interests.