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We know that our Earth is going through some changes.
Some people like to discuss whether we’re the main cause for it, but what we know is
that things seem to be slipping through our fingers like sand.
From animal species to the water we drink, we’re running low on a few things and we
can’t exactly put them on the shopping list and go get them at the store.
So we've put together a list of The Top 10 Things the world is running out of that may
shock you.
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10.
Burial Space I know what you’re thinking, not only are
we overpopulating the earth with living people, but also with dead people?
That’s right.
While before, families were usually buried in their own plots or near their local church,
and now we have graveyards.
However, those bodies don’t just go away and can’t just be replaced.
We have to make new graveyards, find new plots of land, and think of the millions of corpses
we’d have to find space for over a few decades.
So we need to get creative on options.
There is, of course, cremation, or being totally inhumane and piling bodies into pits.
9.
Helium Helium is supposed to be just present in nature,
so why are we running out of it?
Too much sucking on balloons for a cheap laugh?
Turns out, Helium is either recycled or captured from wells, which is costly.
Before, the US had a huge supply, but back in the 1990s they started selling it off,
reducing prices, and then suddenly they stopped, which shook the market.
Now, we’re apparently running out of helium, it’s way too expensive to source, all competitor
vendors against the US government have backed off and, turns out, scientists actually need
the stuff!
Liquid helium helps scientists cool temperatures down in refrigerators to just above absolute
zero.
It’s also used in semiconductor manufacturing, leak detection, and diving.
However, at varying rates reaching $35 a liter, the list of those who are able to afford it
is getting shorter and shorter.
8.
Common Antibiotics The savior of modern health, antibiotics,
could be on its way out.
We’ve overused the medication so much that now the number of drugs that can actually
kill drug-resistant bacteria is dwindling.
Developing new drugs is a big investment and drug companies don’t want to do it to avoid
big losses.
So, we might all die and where will all their big profits go then?
Somebody needs to write a letter and send it to someone who can stop this.
7.
Medical Isotopes Similarly, medical isotopes are on the out.
Medical isotopes give short bursts of low-level radiation and are mainly used to diagnose
cancer.
Technetium-99m, the most common isotope, has a really short half-life, so labs keep a short
supply.
Nuclear facilities all over the world are shutting down and the one facility that made
it in North America shut down years ago.
So, if you’re looking to open a business with low competition, you could look up the
startup cost of a nuclear facility.
6.
Coffee If you’re not in the industry, you might
not realize that coffee prices are going through the roof.
This is due mostly to the conditions in coffee-growing countries.
Droughts and disease outbreaks have not made it easy to grow coffee and we’re all going
to pay the price for it.
In fact, if climate change goes on the way it is, and the demand for coffee increases
as predicted, we’ll be in a massive coffee shortage by 2050.
I cannot even imagine a life without coffee, so looks like I’ll have to start growing
my own here pretty soon.
5.
Bacon After telling you that coffee is going to
be low on stock, you’d think I’d throw you an easy one to get over the blow.
But, I just can’t do that.
Turns out, your breakfast is getting smaller and smaller.
Say your goodbyes to your loyal friend, bacon.
According to the National Pig Association, it’s pretty much an unavoidable loss at
this point.
The rising cost of food due to weak corn and soybean harvests, which are used to feed most
of the animals we eat, hog farmers are minimizing production to cut losses.
To add, a porcine epidemic is attacking farms and there is no vaccine.
So, unless you want to dish out serious cash for your bacon, maybe start trying other options.
4.
Sardines So, we’re running out of sardines.
Is anyone really upset about this?
Anybody?
Sardine populations fluctuate with water temperatures and that’s exactly what’s about to change
on Earth.
So, this means that these sardine hunting ships that are coming back with absolutely
nothing are going to become a common occurrence.
When the ships do catch, they’re not limiting it in order to allow new generations to hatch
and if this continues, we could be eating ourselves into a problem.
Well, people who like sardines, anyway.
3.
Goat Cheese This one is actually pretty interesting.
There was a big Q fever outbreak back in 2010 in the UK and over 50,000 pregnant goats and
sheep were removed from breeding.
Other farmers stopped breeding entirely and thus cut the population of these animals drastically.
As the supply dwindled, demand started to rise with countries like China developing
a taste for the strange cheese.
When there’s money on the table, things start to get awkward as cheese suppliers try
to figure out how to bring their groove back.
In the meantime, goat cheese is going to be a delicacy.
2.
Chocolate As if coffee and bacon weren’t enough!
The only ethical work that’s bringing coffee to you is really increasing the price.
Since child labor is being outlawed in West Africa, as are slavery and trafficking, our
chocolate might start tasting a little sweeter and less hard to swallow, but it will cost
a pretty penny.
In fact, chocolates and diamonds might start to look just as romantic of a gesture.
Since cocoa crops take years of hard work, the hours of ethically sourced labor will
come straight out of consumers pockets.
Hope you can get ahold of your chocolate cravings or you better stock up your freezer.
1.
Tequila Despite my deepest wishes for the image of
Mexico’s rivers flowing with tequila, it’s actually untrue.
A virus in 2007 wiped out a large percentage of blue agave plants in Mexico.
Now, 2007 might seem far back, but considering most agave plants used for tequila are at
least six years old, this means that to this day, the shortage still affects the production
of tequila.
Some farmers even burned their agave fields and replaced them with corn.
This led to an overall rise in tequila prices, so until the blue agave makes a comeback,
Tequila could become the rich people spirit in town.