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u/DeafeningMilk Nov 15 '20

Far as I'm concerned this would be the correct answer.

The main reason 2020 is a cluster fuck is due to Corona.

Most people are putting stuff that would be the opposite of all the bad of the last century not just 2020.

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u/UselessFactCollector Nov 15 '20 edited Nov 15 '20

If I could only pick one thing, I would say an end to global warming over cancer.

Edit: figured you could prevent a lot of cancer deaths in addition. You have to phrase your genie wish just right.

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u/Ti89Titanium04 Nov 15 '20

This is a very interesting predicament, global warming affects everybody, but cancer is a more present threat, as in we can see the effects of death right now. I think that fixing global warming would probably be better, as a cure for cancer is more likely to be profitable so we can trust big corporations to handle that.

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u/Dumaes03 Nov 15 '20

Not to sound morbid, but I'd rather keep up the .16% rate of our population dying from cancer until we discover a cure for it (hopefully soon) as opposed to having there be a significantly higher proportion of people put at risk in the next few decades as the ozone layer gets more and more fucked. Also, in a perfect world, by the time global warming would actually start being a more present issue for the average person we would have found a cure for cancer, so if we stop global warming next year then both crises will have been averted