Human Race: Your Numbers Up

[Cinjin]

Hell, I'm just going to say it.

I think the human race will be driven to the very brink of extinction before it can stop destroying this planet. Earth will be fine ... eventually ... as long as the majority of us aren't on it. Sadly.

[Napoléon]

in terms of nuclear war, any of you guys played fallout?

in my opinion i dont think our race is in any immediate trouble, sure we're running out of resources which could set us back technologically for a while but we'll certainly overcome it. we'll be around for millions of years to come no doubt.

[Jaysyn]

in terms of nuclear war, any of you guys played fallout?

Fallout, any version, is a bad example. The physics of that universe aren't even the same as ours.

[Napoléon]

in terms of nuclear war, any of you guys played fallout?

Fallout, any version, is a bad example. The physics of that universe aren't even the same as ours.

lmao i wasn't saying that would be the outcome of a nuclear war, i'm pretty sure super mutants wouldnt be walking around.
i just thought it was an interesting take on it

[TheDarkestOfAngels]

The human race will definatively die out at some point in time and for at least one of the following reasons:

1) We would eventually outgrow our own existance. Humans would replace ourselves with something better.
2) We would naturally evolve into another species (a variation of #1 as #1 assumes the same thing, technologically induced)
3) We wipe ourselves out (nukes, runaway greenhouse effect from global warming, antimatter explosion that obliterates the crust of the earth, - take your pick)
4) Natural death, such as by gamma-ray burst, a super-solar flare, etc - take your pick.

It's only a matter of time before one of the above things happen, though I'm sure if 1 or 2 were true, we'd have genetic archives of ourselves as we originally were just because that's how humans roll.

[Anomalocaris]

#1 the current condition of the resources of this planet

They are fine. When we start dying, they will still be fine.

yes, that is one side of the debate. The other side, of which there is far more evidence, is that earths resources are not "fine" ... but I do enjoy the "nuh uuh" argument when people like myself express concern about our planet.

Define "not fine".

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Hell, I'm just going to say it.

I think the human race will be driven to the very brink of extinction before it can stop destroying this planet. Earth will be fine ... eventually ... as long as the majority of us aren't on it. Sadly.

I dislike the vainglorious word "destroy" thrown around in relation to our planet. Our civilization's industry and economy depends on the preservation of a much more strongent set of environmental conditions on the earth then is required by bulk of the ecosystem to survive. If we actually set out to destroy the planet, our civilization will keel over and croak from the initial effects long before we go far enough to endanger the earth's carrying capacity for life in the long run.

[ib.me.ub]

The report, based on scientific data from across the world, reveals that more than a third of the natural world has been destroyed by humans over the past three decades.

not fine = finite.

If we actually set out to destroy the planet, our civilization will keel over and croak from the initial effects long before we go far enough to endanger the earth's carrying capacity for life in the long run.

We don't need to set out to do anything, all we need to do is carry on as usual.

Perhaps it is our destiny.

[Minimalist]

An asteroid hit of the magnitude of Chicxulub would probably suffice to wipe us out but failing that I expect that we will suffer through a major die-off but there will be enough survivors to start all over again fucking things up.

[Violet]

[Cinjin]