The Human Civilization and its Impending Doom

[JSFLY]

I had an interesting discussion in one of my classes today (money markets and capital of all classes) about how long the human race will survive and what would be the most likely cause of our extinction.

Will aliens come down from the sky in the near future and steal all our women?

Will we choke on our own greenhouse gasses?

Will our ingenuity and intellect rise above the problems facing our globe and will we migrate to the distant stars once our sun dies?

How do you think humanity will end? In how many years? In what ways?

 

[Ika]

wtf, did you copy an old thread? Because I swear I've seen this before.

 

[JSFLY]

Originally posted by: Aflac
wtf, did you copy an old thread? Because I swear I've seen this before.

No... sorry if this is a repost though if I get another person saying It is I'll shut it down.

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

Where is the Jesus returns and saves us option?

 

[lyssword]

Chuck norris leading the poll

 

[Rock Hydra]

Originally posted by: lyssword
Chuck norris leading the poll

REPENT! THE END IS NEAR!

 

[Baked]

Titan A.E. style, I hope.

 

[JS80]

Originally posted by: CrazyHelloDeli
Where is the Jesus returns and saves us option?

ditto that.

 

[JSFLY]

Originally posted by: Baked
Titan A.E. style, I hope.

I loved that movie. Dunno why but that scene with the creed song playing in the background gave me chills down my spine.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Till we become something other than humans

 

[Kadarin]

Until the Singularity.

 

[IEC]

Let's see... two of the greatest causes of human misery everywhere are greed and the lust for power/control. I could see WWIII essentially wiping out 90% of the human race.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Wasn't there a supernova that sterilized and entire galaxy detected a few months ago? Only that or divine intervention could end us completely, IMO.

 

[phisrow]

My money is on a long, slow, ugly decline, rather than a stiff end.

As useful resources get scarce, due to depletion, climate change, pollution, and mismanagement, people will really start to get desperate and touchy. Economic upheaval, crime, violence, probably some really nasty bush wars, disease, fanaticisms of every stripe.

The poorer and more unstable parts of the planet will gradually revert to a barbaric existence on land barely worth using and the developed regions will be wracked by social instability, economic inequality, fears over the proliferation of ever better, cheaper, and subtler weapons. They'll progressively become radical surveillance societies.

It'll be a long, long time before the last humans are wiped out; but the ones who aren't will wish they were.