RE: The top three biggest threats to humanity....
October 31, 2014 at 8:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2014 at 8:26 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 31, 2014 at 7:41 pm)lifesagift Wrote:(October 31, 2014 at 7:38 pm)Chuck Wrote: Define threat.
Do I need to? or are you being a pedant?
A threat is a threat...
No, the fact that you consider Islamic extremism to be a threat to humanity, rather than threat to preferences of some parts of humanity, suggest you have not thought through what is a threat.
(October 31, 2014 at 8:12 pm)paulpablo Wrote:(October 31, 2014 at 7:12 pm)lifesagift Wrote: What do people think the biggest threats to the human race are? top three or top 10... feel free
For me it has to be militant islam first, aggressive virus next, freak meteorite strike, self suffocation of the planet...
In no order.
1) Meteor/ asteroid
2) The sun dying in the future.
3) Climate change.
I don't see how militant Islam could threaten humanity, at worst it could result in a nuclear explosion and millions of deaths, but not a serious threat to the survival of all humanity.
I would rank very large VEI 8 volcanic eruption as a much more likely globally cataclysmic natural event than an asteriod impact. I think the frequency of globally significant asteriod pact occurs roughly once every few million years. Globally cataclysmic volcanic eruption happens 20 times more often.
