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human
I believe that a catastrophic event that will change the face of humanity will occur in my lifetime. CMV.

I recently started a big boy job, and in thinking about retirement (TIAA-CREF FTW) I finally realized and solidified an opinion that had been floating around in the back of my head for years:I will not live to see my retirement, or if I do, society will be so different that concepts like retiring won't be a thing. 

Most of this thought comes from a realization about how fragile our society is, and how easily it could be interrupted. Here are what I think  are the most likely to happen (possibly in combination), in order of their likelihood:

-Climate change: The possibility of famines and other food supply-disrupting weather, shrinking landmasses = competition for resources, scarcity, destabilization of society. This is practically a certainty, the only question is how fast will it happen and how well will we handle it.

-Telecom/electrical grid failure or sabotage: Our society would fall into chaos without these services, and if any were interrupted long enough, bad things would happen. Just really think about what would happen if the electrical grid throughout the US and Canada was just turned off for a couple of months.

-World War III: This seems the least likely, but the repercussions of North Korea's potential idiocy from a couple moths ago proved that it might not be that unlikely if one country makes one wrong move.

Catalysts:

-A further breakdown of our political system, which is slipping into the shitter already in my humble opinion.

-Income inequality continues and accelerates, riots and protests that make "Occupy" look like a Sunday brunch commence.

I'm not a paranoid person, I don't lose sleep over this, I've just accepted it as a fact of life for maybe the last 5 years. Do CMV, because when I do think about it it's depressing as hell. I'm just saying, society is very *very* fragile and we're currently barreling towards a number of potential disasters.
gpt
Those are all possibilities.  It is true that any of that COULD happen.  But you should also know that every single generation has felt the same.  Ask your parents about the Cold War or the Cuban Missile Crisis, they were sure the nuclear war was inevitable.

I believe that people believe that because every generation WANT to be the last.  The idea of seeing the breakdown of civilization, no matter how terrible it could be, is comforting because it is better than the alternative and more likely truth: the world is going to continue on for hundreds and thousand of years and no one will remember you were ever here.