(July 25, 2013 at 10:23 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Obviously it's hard to say how long the human race will be around. We are the only species capable of making ourselves (and almost everything else) extinct. I tend to think that humans will be around for quite a while, while modern civilization is destined for a collapse from resource destruction/depletion in the next couple hundred years. It's hard to say what will arise out of it.
I tend towards this prediction as well. While it's hard to estimate the carrying capacity of earth, I'm on the side that thinks we're way, way over the capacity.
I don't think we'll die out as a result, but definitely a drop in population growth if not population itself. When people get desperate there'll be more wars, famine. Not to mention global warming and extreme weather patterns. Hm, that's starting to sound a little apocalyptic.
