The planet is at the start of a global water crisis.
Fresh clean water is becoming more and more scarce.
A lot of places don't get near as much rainfall as they used to. The rivers are drying up. The lakes are drying up. Groundwater levels are sinking lower and lower.
There's a lot of pollution too. So many rivers are polluted. Lakes too. It's strange to think that people could live next to a river that's so polluted, they wouldn't dare use the water for drinking or washing. Yet it's true.
When you look at extreme weather observations around the world, it doesn't seem like it. All the storms, hail, cyclones, waterspouts, tornadoes, hurricanes and floods might make it seem like there's too much water on the planet; plenty of it, at least. "Snow in the desert, floods in the desert - what are you talking about? Water crisis?"
Nature can be deceptive. Sometimes the things you see happening around you doesn't always mean what you think it means. Humans are deceptive too. Most people like to pretend or assume they're living in a world where there is no close imminent threat that would wreck their lives. But there is.
People are wasting so much time and resources engaging in war and conflict. Because that seems to be profitable in the short run.
I predict, that a time will come, in our very lifetime, when water will become so scarce, and expensive, people will kill for water. It hasn't happened yet. People haven't started killing each other for water yet. But they will. And I predict, that it will happen in my very lifetime.
With no water, there will be no food. The basics. If the human population doesn't address the crisis starting now, by the time they decide to do something, it will be too late. Then it will be every man for himself.
I think a lot of countries will have to start looking at desalination. The fact is, most of them wouldn't be able to afford that, considering the number of third world countries that border the planet's oceans and seas. So people are going to die. They're going to die of thirst, and hunger.
Some time in the future, when people ask themselves, what went wrong, and who's responsible, the current generation will be to blame.