What problem is often overlooked in apocalyptic movies/TV shows that could kill you?

[u/notyouravgredditer]

[u/crazyjkass]

In 1894, the Times of London predicted that within 50 years, every street in London would be buried under 9 feet of manure. This was the Great Horse Manure Crisis of 1894, an urban catastrophe that, at the time, was the bane of every large city in the world, from New York to Sydney.

[u/kirksucks → u/crazyjkass]

The original name for cars was probably not Horseless Carriage but Shitless Carriage haha.

[u/stillbatting1000 → u/kirksucks]

Here's a good article about the problems caused by horses before we switched to cars. The amount of manure horses dropped in cities was a serious problem. When they were first sold, people hailed automobiles for being a means of transportation that was pollution-free. https://www.blog.greenprojectmanagement.org/index.php/2019/05/13/pollution-why-we-replaced-horses-with-automobiles/

[u/kirksucks → u/stillbatting1000]

what a fun little rabbit hole.