you might think that people's greatest
fears are things like the dark or freaky
clowns like the one from it but the
actual answers people give might
surprise you over the past four years
Chapman University in California has
actually been as surveying people across
America to see what they're actually
afraid of forty four point nine percent
of people fear air pollution makes sense
as in urban areas often the air quality
is really poor Los Angeles actually
spends 122 days per year violating the
federal health standards the increase of
forest fires in Northern California
Western Oregon in the Great Plains has
created something called the new smoke
belt Yale researchers think that by the
middle of the century eighty two million
people will be affected by smoke waves
which is two or more consecutive days of
high levels of wildfire related air
pollution North Korea using weapons
forty seven point five percent of people
are scared of war starting with North
Korea which makes sense given that the
Doomsday Clock which was created by the
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists and
evaluates how close we are to a man-made
global catastrophe actually puts 2017 as
the closest we've been to doomsday since
the height of the Cold War in 1953
climate change though a Pew study found
that twenty percent of Americans think
there is no evidence for climate change
get it together people 48% of Americans
fear greatly with headlines like
collapsing glaciers disappearing coral
reefs increased global temperatures it's
like we get it we're scared too that the
US will get involved in another world
war yeah okay high medical bills the
status of the Affordable Care Act is a
huge concern and fear for Americans a
recent report found that a quarter of
Americans say that someone in their
household is struggling to pay off
medical debt so this can create a huge
fear and uncertainty around this issue
not having enough money for the future
this fear is shared by over fifty
percent of Americans who are uncertain
about the stability of their financial
future around twelve point seven percent
of people live under the poverty line
which means they make less than twenty
four thousand dollars for a family of
four pollution of drinking
this is likely due to what happened in
Flint Michigan where over 100,000 people
were exposed to high levels of lead in
their drinking water in Flint since
early 2017 they do say that the water
levels have gone to a more acceptable
place but they're still instructing
residents to drink bottled water until
they fix all of the pipes this may not
happen until 2020 and I can see why
Americans would be scared of this
happening to them number three is the
fear of pollution in our oceans rivers
and lakes which hey I'm pretty happy
people are scared of that given that you
know we might have to do something about
it number two given that this survey was
American centric is the state of health
care in America and what Trump's new
American Health Care Act will even mean
for people to make sense given that
people want to know the certainty of
their health care plan and not knowing
is pretty scary and the number one fear
is the corruption of government
officials seventy-five percent of
Americans surveyed do not trust
politicians this is also a bipartisan
issue because it was the number one fear
of Americans for a third year in a row
it's not just because of trauma now it's
important to remember that these are
just the results from one survey in
America has a lot of different people in
it but I thought it was interesting to
note that these kind of fears we always
think about spiders in the dark but
these were a lot more realistic so what
are your genuine fears mine is dying
alone but seriously let us know your
fears in the comments below you can
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