Stop thinking in terms of "events" and start looking at "processes", and you realize that something big is here with us as we speak. All the things you list in your first paragraph are it. This is a big thing. We are living it. This is for real. It's up to each of us to figure out how to navigate it. Using the old saying "the trend is your friend", it is likely to continue to get rapidly worse for the foreseeable future. Prepare as best you can, and build serious flexibility into whatever preparations you make. Predicting these kinds of environments is close to impossible.