[HenryKissinger]

I'll take predictions of doom I've been hearing since my childhood for $100 Alex.

[Cthulhu_]

When I was a kid it was acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer.

Thankfully, thanks to legislation (reducing SO2 emissions for the acid rain, the Montreal Protocol banning the production of CFC's and co on the other) those issues have been resolved.

What predictions of doom have you heard from your childhood that are still a thing? I mean climate change is still a thing, and it seems to take a lot more investments to resolve it.

[zikzak]

And the constant threat of nuclear annihilation.

[adrianN]

We are right in the middle of a mass extinction event and continue to mess with systems we don't fully understand. How long do you think we can go on like this until it affects rich people in developed nations?

[eggsmediumrare]

The past is a only a good predictor of the future when the past resembles the present.

[paulryanrogers]

Perhaps the game we're actually playing is generational musical chairs.

[TomSwirly]

Empty sarcasm is corrosive to adult conversations. Please avoid it in future.