Human Survival

[popeyespappy]

I don't know much about this subject, it's a gray area to me. Assuming we don't kill ourselves, I know that the Earth is habitable for about another billion years.

Depends on who you talk to. Estimates on how long the surface of Earth can support life vary greatly. Many think the oceans will only last another 500 million to 1 billion years. If that is true our planet won't be able to support much more than single cell organisms long before that. Some believe complex plant life could have as little as one or two hundred millions years left. When that is gone most of the rest of us will join it.

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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.

It isn't so much about not enough resources as it is about poor allocation of those resources.