Plagues
The concern over disease is a two-pronged beast.
On one hand, the excessiveprescription of antibioticsis creating bacterial strains that are stronger with every generation.
Home-Cooked Diseases
The second prong of the plague problem comes in the form of knowledge being disseminated too widely.
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Many publications showed how the bird flu, or H5N1, could easily be turned intoa fatal disease.
All it takes is very little know-how and a reason to want people dead.
Machines are already learning more about us than we even know about ourselves.
Theres no need for artificial intelligence.
Weve already crafted the very tools that can make us believe whatever they wish.
Democracy has always been an experiment, one that only a small percentage of the world actually adheres to.
Then, these authoritarian overlords will fight over land and resources, using the public as cannon fodder.
Climate Change
Deny it as much as you want, thescience doesnt lie.
Extreme temperatures on both ends of the spectrum are causing ever more destructive storms.
Ecological Extinction
The Earths biome is immense, complicated, and intertwined in ways we only marginally understand.
The deforestation of the rainforest alone has aspecies death tollthats staggering.
Supervolcano
Though Earthquakes are frightening, and can cause destructive tsunamis, theyre small potatoes on the global scene.
Algae Armageddon
2.35 billion years ago, cyanobacteria a tiny little bacteriological creature learned how to photosynthesize.
To do this, they used the carbon dioxide in the air, along with sunlight.
The byproduct was a lot of oxygen.
Through this single change, theentire atmosphereof the Earth altered.
Currently, theres a similar creature called diatoms.
Supernova
Our death might already be hurtling toward us, and we dont even know it.