Bye Bye Society?

[Cinjin]

Sure, some new bug could do damage.  Probably won't kill us all - but if 2/3rds of europe was wiped out by Black Plague Redux  I'd call that an event.  I worry more about ag disease because those superbugs do exist, and have for at least 10k years - despite every effort.  With the exception of a short blip between the 30's and the 50's it's been no contest, we aren't even on the same level.  We continue to lose that fight today, all while consolidating our -global- food supply into just three of the most susceptible crops.  The reason that crop disease is, in my estimation, more worrisome than global epidemic...is that mainline ag cultivars are uniform, and cloned.  What kills one, kills all.  A disease could spread from Heartland USA to Heartland China and kill wheat indiscriminantly, whilst a disease in those two populations of human beings might find more resistance in it's way.  Food moves alot more than people do, as well.  In the end though, a disease of crops or a disease of our own, the effect would be similar(we're pretty tight with our food)..tell you what though, I'd rather be sick /w food than healthy /w none.  Hell, running low on food will bring on all sorts of sickness and disease, no need for any new superbugs.  What we already have would suffice.  We're already in a massive starvation event.

Food shortages (arguably caused by significant changes in global weather patterns due to climate change) often lead to civil unrest and even all-out war according to our own human history.  Being that you admit we're already in a massive starvation event, I'd say that makes world war far my feasible and the collapse of our society at the very least a legitimate possibility.  When a country can't feed itself any longer, there's nothing left to lose by taking aggressively hostile action against other countries.  Which isn't to say that I necessarily believe that world war is the end of everything, but I would say that our inaction over the obvious climate change could be our own undoing due to the nature of dominoes. 

Also, it seems your "everything is going to be fine based on the past" argument borders on the Normalcy Bias. No, it's not exactly the same, but some of those comparisons don't seem to hold up.  Which in truth, I'm torn about.  In one sense, I desperately want to agree with you.  Unlike many doomsday preppers, I DON'T want society as I've come to know it collapse.  I rather like going out to eat at Red Lobster once in awhile.  However, the cautious, realistic side of me knows that pretending everything is fine is extremely dangerous.  Everything is most definitely not fine with this planet's climate and this last year especially we are seriously starting to see the cracks in the dam.