How our civilisation may end

The G20 Health and Development Partnership released a report that claims the threats from deisease and antimicrobial resistance are as significant as climate change and G20 governments should make the health issue a priority just like finance. People can understand the importance of health and are able to draw links between population health and economic performance; however, when talking about economic performance, many people forget about health to some extent. This could be caused by there are simply too many factors affect economic performance and health is not the most obvious one especially comparing with banking and finance. Moreover, the impact of health on economic performance is not direct or immediate, the costs of bad health are often indirect and long term. There are other such indirect factors affecting the world economic performance. Another classical example of such factor is climate change. Environmental issues have been recognised for a long time, but climate change is relatively very new. In the past, people treated environmental issues as a threat to people's health. This remains true, but people widen the issue to a global scale and treat it as a systematic change rather than one isolated problem.

There can be a lot more such factors that are waiting for people's recognisation. However, the sad thing is that these indirect or unimmeidate factors do not gain people's attention until they are making significant impacts on our lives. When there is only one single person, he or she does not have the abilities to think about everything. With the entire world population, we cannot say that we are able to think everything but we should certainly think much more than what one individual thinks. And we certainly do. However, we also think that we do not think enough, the more we are thinking, the more problems we recognise. One individual has his or her abilitiy boundary, the entire population still has its ability boundary, though it is much much larger than the individual boundary. If we assume we have infinite problems ahead of us and the growth rate of new issue recognisation is strictly increasing. We will eventually end with the situation where we have too many serious and urgent problems to be solved with our abilities. Then our human beings will extinct after we fail to solve these urgent problems.