Finnish Government Agency Warns Global Oil Industry Is on the Brink of Meltdown
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Memes aside, this is something that has been scaring me for a while already. A pure chance event of some unfortunate events at the same time, like a recession, bad harvests and a spreading illness to overwhelm us and leading to devastating effects world-wide.
We are both in the fortunate and unfortunate situation that everything is intertwined now. Fortunate because you're neither going to bomb the ones building or buying your iPhones nor a local bad harvest meaning the end of you and unfortunate because a disaster at the other end of the world can still have effects at your place. Earthquakes in Taiwan and rising DRAM prices are a benign example here.
What could we do to reduce the risk of such an event? How would we communicate what needs to be done? There are currently already people considering imo prudent measures like handwashing, keeping distance from others, avoiding larger gatherings as over the top - and the somewhat unfortunate outcome is that when these measures actually work, these people will insist that 'everything wasn't so bad after all'. Any ideas?
I believe one of the most compelling reasons to go vegan is to generally reduce the proximity between animals and people, which curbs the likelihood that something like this could happen in the future.
On a more practical level, just save a lot of money. If you can pay for everything you need, the recession doesn't matter (assuming things like civilization collapse, etc don't happen).