https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/

Maybe one of the atoms in my kettle is quantumly entangled with an Ur-Quan sensor beacon and when I make a coffee in the morning it's going to trigger an alien invasion.

I'm imagining that climate change is just the tip of the iceberg, and in reality what governments aren't telling us is that our days are already known to be irreversibly numbered (e.g., imminent collapse of habitable climate by 2050 or something, proven by science, accepted by world leaders, kept secret from the public for control).

In other words, imagine if humanity already knows definitively that we must find a new habitat and fast. Knowing what we do about human history would our "leaders", dictators, governments, etc., openly alert the public, or would they secretly conspire to solve the problem their way at our expense? For example, by tricking us into signing up for a draft of slave colonization duty.

They'll ease us into it. At first it's just a casual and fun (and inexpensive) gimmick involving the notion of delivering our names to a new planet under the guise of space exploration and discovery. Once they have their initial unsuspecting "volunteers" they'll tell us it's a necessary sacrifice to make. As usual, the sacrifices will mostly come from the intersection of men and the poor, propped up by others who foolishly volunteer and eventually supplemented by the middle class as the lower classes dwindle.

While this is pretty crazy conspiracy talk, the more I research the history of capitalism and the events that have been occurring the more concerned that I am that we're on a runaway train by design. The train operators have an ejection seat. It's only really you and I that will be hurt when the inevitable happens. In the meantime, the train operators are hoarding resources to ensure their families continue to be afforded the best opportunities in whatever comes next. And the rest of us be quite literally damned.

Well, as long as we're imagining things, this would make a cool premise for a video game

Though, my experience in research tells me that 1) Scientific consensus is only reached after a long period of public debate in scientific journals, conferences and university halls 2) Even when there is a clear consensus, there is no guarantee politicians will listen to it or even understand it. 3) It's therefore extremely unlikely that any important scientific idea can be kept hidden by a small group of leaders.