Poll: humanity and it's future

[arcticphoenix95]

We will last. Humans refuse to kick the bucket. As a species we will continue to grow. Eventually we will likely make it into space as well. People say we don't evolve anymore and for the most part yeah, its true. Though there are still people who refuse to stop growing and becoming smarter. Physicists, chemists, biologists. They continue to change and grow and challenge the rules that bind our world.

The human race as a species will survive. Like others said our culture in itself will change. Our race as a whole though will not die. After three or four global disasters that our planet have we managed to hump or way back into the dominate species i have a hard time believing now were suddenly going to be wiped out.

remember that other disasters didn't involve nukes and poisonous CO2 (as far as i know)

 

[Kagim]

We will last. Humans refuse to kick the bucket. As a species we will continue to grow. Eventually we will likely make it into space as well. People say we don't evolve anymore and for the most part yeah, its true. Though there are still people who refuse to stop growing and becoming smarter. Physicists, chemists, biologists. They continue to change and grow and challenge the rules that bind our world.

The human race as a species will survive. Like others said our culture in itself will change. Our race as a whole though will not die. After three or four global disasters that our planet have we managed to hump or way back into the dominate species i have a hard time believing now were suddenly going to be wiped out.

remember that other disasters didn't involve nukes and poisonous CO2 (as far as i know)

No, they included massive meteorites that blotted out the sun killing the majority of all life.

Edit: One of which reducing the human race to that of almost half a football stadium.

 

[arcticphoenix95]

that happened BEFORE humans were even primates..........wait.......

 

[Singularly Datarific]

Yes. We damn well survived the last 100,000 years, and we damn will the next.

 

[Anticitizen_Two]

Of course. We'll easily survive a hundred years.

 

[Estocavio]

We're stubborn bastards - We will live through practically anything.
For example, there were survivors in Hiroshima, Chernobyl (Sorry if i spelt that wrong); People who have survived building collapsing on them, people who have survived bullets to the head, etc.
I think we'll be just fine.

 

[Kagim]

that happened BEFORE humans were even primates..........wait.......

Doesn't matter. Humans are humans. We survive. Homo sapien sapien's at any stage of development is still fundamentally the same race. You don't think the highest stage of development has less of the survival instinct?

Think our generation is to fat and lazy? Look up survival stories. Its amazing what humans can do when the only alternative is death. Look across the ocean into countries that don't have the luxury we do. We survive.

Its our thing.

We're stubborn bastards - We will live through practically anything.
For example, there were survivors in Hiroshima, Chernobyl (Sorry if i spelt that wrong); People who have survived building collapsing on them, people who have survived bullets to the head, etc.
I think we'll be just fine.

^^this

People who were irradiated by the Hiroshima blasts had people living till the end of there lives. Children being born with radiation diseases growing up and surviving years.

Chernobyl a lot of people who were on ground zero still lived long lives.

Radiation isn't a death sentence for everyone effect, just most of them. There will always be humans that survive. We don't like dying. We fight to stop that from happening. Nuclear fallout, pfft, most of us will die. The rest will have children that can use a walk in microwave like a sauna.

 

[arcticphoenix95]

when there are hundreds of nukes going off at once.......i'll stop. but i wish people would stop fucking like rabbits though or else we'll just drain all of the earth's resources........*making new thread out of this idea*.

 

[GammaZord]

I was gonna vote "yes." Then I read the topic on the 72 yr old woman having a (donor egg) child with her grandson. My opinion has since changed...

Plus we're fat

 

[Bourne]

Don't think so. Between Climate Change, some very angry people out there, the ever-present existence of nuclear weapons, and of the potential lapses of sanity in leaders who are seeing their country decline does not look like it will produce a happy outcome.

We will always persist, unless every single square inch of the Earth is absolutely inhospitable, which could not happen due to climate change, or angry people with nukes.

 

[DefunctTheory]

Humanity is the most resilient, powerful, and evolutionarily advanced species ever known. While we have made some... mistakes, we will be around for quite some time.

Honestly, I think when every other species of multicellular life dies, we might follow.

 

[StBishop]

I don't think we are the most intelligent. I doubt the world would have so much pollution and so little ozone had humans never shown up. Would the sharks and whales have used fossil fuels and nuclear energy to destroy our ozone? Would the Buffalo and lions have made cars that emit toxic fumes into the breathing air? My guess is not. We claim that we are the most intelligent on the planet, yet we have dealt the most damage to it.

Honestly, I don't see humans lasting much longer. Maybe a few hundred more years until we start having fatal problems as a race.

But that's all my opinion, of course. I know we are taking steps to recover the damage we have done, I just don't think we will recover at the same rate at which we damage the planet. Stalling the inevitable, if you will. Not the brightest outlook, I know, but it's my outlook none the less. Sorry.

Quick note... Neuclear energy has little to no effect on the ozone layer.

Another quick note:
It's actually a layer of ozone that we're worried about. Ozone it's-self is a molecule of O3 (Three Oxygen atom's bonded together) also known as Trioxygen. (Brown et. al., 2007) Which is found through out the atmosphere, not just the edges of it.

 

[Yureina]

Don't think so. Between Climate Change, some very angry people out there, the ever-present existence of nuclear weapons, and of the potential lapses of sanity in leaders who are seeing their country decline does not look like it will produce a happy outcome.

We will always persist, unless every single square inch of the Earth is absolutely inhospitable, which could not happen due to climate change, or angry people with nukes.

Perhaps. I guess you could say that my definition of "Humanity's Future" is that of a pre-apocalyptic world.

 

[JWW]

I think we've got at least another century in us.

 

[JWW]

I think we've got another century in us.

 

[Simon Leonhart]

I think that humanity will survive the next hundred years, but if the past hundred years are any indication, it won't be pretty.

 

[StBishop]

We will last. Humans refuse to kick the bucket. As a species we will continue to grow. Eventually we will likely make it into space as well. People say we don't evolve anymore and for the most part yeah, its true. Though there are still people who refuse to stop growing and becoming smarter. Physicists, chemists, biologists. They continue to change and grow and challenge the rules that bind our world.

The human race as a species will survive. Like others said our culture in itself will change. Our race as a whole though will not die. After three or four global disasters that our planet have we managed to hump or way back into the dominate species i have a hard time believing now were suddenly going to be wiped out.

Wait what? Which 3 or 4 disasters are we talking about? I feel that I'm missing some crucial information.

also:

Hiroshima blasts had people living till the end of there lives

lol

 

[Bourne]

Perhaps. I guess you could say that my definition of "Humanity's Future" is that of a pre-apocalyptic world.

So you don't have much hope for survivors...

Me neither. But its fun to toy with, the notion of being one of the last alive.

 

[Turbo_Destructor]

no species is more resourceful than humans. We will find a way to survive. It may be through space travel and terraforming other planets. Or it maybe through rolling back civilisation to nomadic hunter-gatherers after significant population culling/shrinkage. Overall, the most important thing to humans is to SURVIVE, and I think that we are capable of going to any length to ensure our survival.