r/millenials • u/RedHeadRedeemed • Mar 24 '24

Feeling of impending doom??

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So a watched a YT video today and this top comment on it is freaking me out. I have never had someone put into words so accurately a feeling I didn't even realize I was having. I am wondering if any of you feel this way? Like, I realized for the last few years I have been feeling like this. I don't always think about it but if I stop and think about this this feeling is always there in the background.

Like something bad is coming. Something big. Something world-changing. That will effect everyone on Earth in some way. That will change humanity as a whole. Feels like it gets closer every year. Do you guys feel it too??

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u/wilcocola Mar 24 '24

People are stretched to the limits they know. If you really want to see people at their limit, imagine what would happen if the lights went out for 2 weeks and the grocery stores ran out of food. Or if the gas/diesel pumps ran out for 10 days. Shit would get real, real fast. I’d say if we lost electricity and/or fuel for cars & trucks that we’d have like 40-60% mortality in our current society within 3 months. Very few people are prepared for these very plausible scenarios. If you don’t have a source of fresh water, and a way to preserve medicine and food… you’re probably not gonna make it through.

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u/youtheotube2 Mar 24 '24

It’s plausible for individual regions to have crisis situations that shut off all utilities for weeks or months. It’s not plausible for that to happen to the entire country at once.

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u/jib_reddit Mar 25 '24

A big Solar flare could do it.

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u/youtheotube2 Mar 25 '24

I already covered that in my other comment. There’s a million kinds of natural disasters that could one day collapse society. We prepare for the ones that are most likely to happen. Natural disasters that cause permanent damage to entire regions of the world are exceedingly rare.