Well, yes, I do. Very perceptive of you.
Also, airplanes? They’d top the list of inventions that I’d ban. I hate airplanes. Military equipment will be confined to sticks and rocks. Or maybe just sticks. Twigs.
cardio-vascular health.
This DM article (sorry) says,
America is still ‘fundamentally unprepared’ for zoonotic diseases - the biggest threat to humankind, says analysis by Harvard and NYU
Let’s add the unknown long-term impacts of COVID-19. I suspect we’re going to have a lot of very sick people in the coming years.
The proliferation of fundementalist religion.
Be it christian, islam or whatever: each seems to be against science, human rights (especially women), warlike against its rivals and a very nasty regime to live under.
Hopefully it contains the seeds of its own downfall: by deprecating science, a regime of this type will fail because they can’t keep the machines running by faith.
Jesus. I think I’d prefer ecological collapse.
It’s the one to bet on anyway, so you’re in luck.
Problem solved:
I don’t think that solves the problem. It just delays it a bit. And I think the estimates are still 25’ish years out. I haven’t heard that we can consider helium a renewable or endless resource.
I have heard that the Finnish government has a special, regular committee that each year picks one foreseeable problem, develops strategies to meet it, and has the resources to implement the strategy. A few years back, “pandemic virus” was the problem, and Finland stockpiled appropriate supplies.
So that’s where all the toilet paper was.
Yup. They’re a dour people, but crafty. Just ask the Russian army