Poll: The Human Race, do we have hope?
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If we can start to colonize other planets/moons in about 100-200 years, then we'll probably be fine, otherwize, our planet will be too crowded and we'll have used up all our recources.
Or we have a massive network of tunnels that goes far down into the Earth that will allow us to:
a) Have more room for people to populate.
b) Access the fuel reserves that are buried deep below the surface of the Earth (OK I'm not sure if there would be any left, but it's worth a shot).
I should be nominated President of the World. Seriously, I'd be awesome.
Or we have a massive network of tunnels that goes far down into the Earth that will allow us to:
a) Have more room for people to populate.
b) Access the fuel reserves that are buried deep below the surface of the Earth (OK I'm not sure if there would be any left, but it's worth a shot).
I should be nominated President of the World. Seriously, I'd be awesome.
Just look at the fossil record of this planet. 99% of everything that was alive is now completely extinct. This is not a planet that loves life. The fact that we're here in the first place plays so hard against the odds I'm amazed we haven't been smacked down already.
Hell, we were almost extinct thousands of years ago.
Hell, we were almost extinct thousands of years ago.
Like they said in the second terminator or somthing like that
John: We are not gonna make it are we?
Arnold: The human race always kill each other
somthing like that I havent seen that movie in forever. That pretty much sums it up though because its true we fight over pointless things and some people just don't know how to socially interact with people without being a jerk.
John: We are not gonna make it are we?
Arnold: The human race always kill each other
somthing like that I havent seen that movie in forever. That pretty much sums it up though because its true we fight over pointless things and some people just don't know how to socially interact with people without being a jerk.
We'll probably survive far into the future, barring any major catastrophe, like a meteor impact or a super virus or nuclear war. Human beings are great at adapting to the environment and we are so numerous that it would take a SERIOUS calamity to kill all 6.8(or so) billion of us.
Not to spark too much of a "global warming debate" here, but I do not think global warming will kill off humanity. I do think global warming is occuring. The fact is that CO2 IS A GREENHOUSE GAS - it traps in heat! Do this experiment - take two glass boxes. Fill one with normal air and fill the other with more CO2 - guess which one heats up faster!? That is a CHEMICAL fact, and we've released billions of tonnes of the stuff into the atmosphere, not to mention methane and other gases which are effective at trapping heat within the atmosphere.
But will it mean the end of our species? Surely not. The threat of global warming, although real, will take decades upon decades or even a century to manifest. Human beings are slow to change but they will once things get too bad. Not only that, the eventual effects of global warming cannot be determined - it's impossible to simulate what the effects global warming will have one hundred years from now.
Our technology creates problems. But it also creates solutions. Right now, we are developing cleaner technology, more efficient circuits and learning more and more about the world. Global warming and other human follies will hurt us, will hurt the planet, but we'll survive. Maybe not comfortably, but we'll survive nonetheless.
About the only thing that can kill us at this point is a meteor the size of Manhattan. Yes we are suffering from over-population, but that can be solved, and if we don't solve it, believe me the problem will solve itself (hint: it involves a lot of people dying due to starvation).
I have no fears about the future of our species, at least for the next 300 years or so. What I do fear is the destruction of our society. The species will survive. Our way of life might not. I foresee very grim times ahead for humanity. Not mad-max by any means, more like a future as seen in "Code 46" if you've seen that film by Michael Winterbottom.
Not to spark too much of a "global warming debate" here, but I do not think global warming will kill off humanity. I do think global warming is occuring. The fact is that CO2 IS A GREENHOUSE GAS - it traps in heat! Do this experiment - take two glass boxes. Fill one with normal air and fill the other with more CO2 - guess which one heats up faster!? That is a CHEMICAL fact, and we've released billions of tonnes of the stuff into the atmosphere, not to mention methane and other gases which are effective at trapping heat within the atmosphere.
But will it mean the end of our species? Surely not. The threat of global warming, although real, will take decades upon decades or even a century to manifest. Human beings are slow to change but they will once things get too bad. Not only that, the eventual effects of global warming cannot be determined - it's impossible to simulate what the effects global warming will have one hundred years from now.
Our technology creates problems. But it also creates solutions. Right now, we are developing cleaner technology, more efficient circuits and learning more and more about the world. Global warming and other human follies will hurt us, will hurt the planet, but we'll survive. Maybe not comfortably, but we'll survive nonetheless.
About the only thing that can kill us at this point is a meteor the size of Manhattan. Yes we are suffering from over-population, but that can be solved, and if we don't solve it, believe me the problem will solve itself (hint: it involves a lot of people dying due to starvation).
I have no fears about the future of our species, at least for the next 300 years or so. What I do fear is the destruction of our society. The species will survive. Our way of life might not. I foresee very grim times ahead for humanity. Not mad-max by any means, more like a future as seen in "Code 46" if you've seen that film by Michael Winterbottom.
I think people who think we are doing poorly have absolutely no memory of history. We are disgusted at at the quality of schools that contain mostly minorities, but completely forget about segregation before, and slavery before that. We fear the Swine Flu killing hundreds, and forget the Spanish Flu killing millions, and the death rate before proper medicine. We hate that America kills thousands with a thin justification, and forget the conquerors of the past killing millions because they were capable of it, and thought it would be glorious for there empire. The fact that we, today, are so cynical of how poorly we are doing just shows the will we have to make the world better. The human race is pretty amazing, especially considering that we have standards so high that we can even begin to despair, considering how far we have come.
To quote Love Actually:
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around."
"Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around."
It's always easy to say how bad things are. There's a lot of good out there, you just don't hear as much of it as you do the bad.
The human race is doing better than ever. Sure we've got pollution, war, crime, racism, terrorism, etc. But if you look at how far we've come, what the human race has accomplished and is accomplishing every single day, it's amazing. It's easy being a pessimist when you look at the news, but that's just ignoring all the great things in the world that apparently aren't newsworthy. I might not like every single member of the human race, but I do strongly believe that the human race is far from doomed, and still has a lot of potential left to explore.
When I talk to random people online on forums like this, they have a very annoying tendency to have this ignorant and juvenile outlook of "everyone is dumb and mean, the human race sucks, why can't everyone be more like me". I'd say, take a closer look at that mentality before judging the rest of the human race.
When I talk to random people online on forums like this, they have a very annoying tendency to have this ignorant and juvenile outlook of "everyone is dumb and mean, the human race sucks, why can't everyone be more like me". I'd say, take a closer look at that mentality before judging the rest of the human race.
We've done nothing but rape this planet and it's inhabitants since our evolutionary development, we deserve to die. I think it's also pretty narcissistic of all of those TV shows and movies that depict the extinction of the human race as "the end of the world". Life on Earth will not only go on without us, it will prosper.
