I think humans will go extinct soon
just a hunch
shareNo, but life might become a lot more difficult for a lot of us.
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Trump would still find a way to blame Obama.
shareDepends on your definition of extinct. I don't think animals really go extinct they just evolve/mutate into other species.
shareif ww3 breaks out humans will bot survive
shareThere are 7.6 billion people on this earth. You don't think some of them might survive nuclear war?
shareAgreed. we will be screwed back to the middle ages though but a handful will continue.
shareYeah. Far lower population sizes of our ancestors were remarkably resistant to mass extinction events in the past, seems kind of naive to believe nuclear war alone would wipe out 7.6 billion of our species now.
But the increased odds that mutations from either radiation exposure or genetic drift caused by population bottlenecks could split our species off into subspecies.
if the nuclear war has poisoned the entire earth / atmo , which is entirely possible. no .
Ever seen "on the Beach" ?
According to this researcher on the topic, no. I think the premise of On The Beach was not scientifically based.
The first question that one might logically ask is whether chemical releases would make the atmosphere lethally toxic on a global or semi-global basis. The answer is no. Even if an entire year's production of organic chemicals were released and uniformly mixed over half of the Northern Hemisphere, the total concentration of all chemical compounds would still be a factor of 5,000 times less than the 50 percent lethal dose (LD50) of hydrogen cyanide gas. Of course, most compounds are not nearly so toxic, and probably only 5-10 percent of a year's chemical production is in storage at any one time. Similarly, it is also true that toxic compounds such as carbon monoxide, acrolein, hydrogen chloride, hydrogen cyanide, sulfur dioxide, phosgene, and the oxides of nitrogen produced in urban fires could be significant causes of death only on a local basis. Thus, for the long-term survivors of a nuclear war, the concern with chemical releases would be similar to concern with delayed radioactive fallout, namely, mutations leading to cancers and birth defects. In this sense, we might, by analogy, refer to these effects as arising from the chemical fallout.
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ok , fair enough, nuclear war wont kill as all in one go. The OP's suggestion that "humans will go extinct" is unlikey.
I do think however , that it will only take a little ripple , like a bad harvest due to some mad grain disease , or a shortage of oil (thats where my money is) , even temporarily , to cause the complete breakdown of all systems (food + distribution) with 70% dead in a month , most of rest dead shortly after from fighting over the remains .... and back to the stone age.
So not "extinct" but a real bad day all round.
It's hard to see shortages of oil any time soon now with shale oil all the rage and the US no longer dependent on foreign oil. The "peak oil" scare of a decade ago seems to be a thing of the past.
I think it'd take more than a little ripple to wipe out 70% of our species. If we were that easily decimated by plague or anything else we wouldn't be here today, or at least there'd be a lot less of us and a lot more plagues in our historical record that had wiped out a lot more of the global population. With modern science and medicine, it's hard to see how even a deadly plague without a cure wouldn't be quarantined and controlled long before it killed 70%.
I'd put the closest to getting to those numbers would be either nuclear war and onset of a nuclear winter causing global food shortages or runaway rapid climate change, the latter posing the greatest existential threat to our survival as a species. A supervolcano eruption could cause a lot of mayhem too, just from the global food shortages from the subsequent nuclear winter that could last years, but I'm hesitant to place the casualty rate at 70%. If the supervolcano at Yellowstone were to blow, it wouldn't bode well for the future of the populations in the United States or North America overall.
Nope! That's not how things work when you're clear cutting rain forests.
We are definitely decreasing the biodiversity on earth, which is bad.
Human civilization may take a nose dive but extinct nah not gonna happen. Once the human population gets low enough those rainforests will be able to catchup and regrow after a few generations. Populations are already shrinking in the larger developed nations. Its the undeveloped nations with their high birthrate you need to keep an eye on.
shareAnd you think you're going to make the cut?
Nope!
(Only the 1% will rule over the devestated wasteland dispopia current policies are leading us towards)
And you think you're going to make the cut?
Did I say that?
Nope!
(Only the 1% of the physicaly strongest of our population will be able to survive) Social structures will have broken down to the point that were in feudal times with warlords who will be in constant conflict with other gangs or trying to stop uprisings from their own starving populations. share
humans go extinct? lol that will never happened.
shareThey will along with everything else when global warming proceeds. It's happened before (before the last ice age) and it will happen again, but not for about another 500 years or so. Check out NASA's report on climate change.
shareThats kinda my point. During the last ice age reptiles started growing feathers to stay warm and some of them learned to fly becoming birds. Life changes it doesn't really die. And for that matter we still have vanilla reptiles today.
shareThe last ice age didn't wipe out our ancestors though, in fact they flourished or we wouldn't be here today. Birds, and reptiles also flourished.
Large mammals perished.
Just LibTards, they don't breed anymore.
shareThe lower economic non producing libtards living on handouts seem to keep breading at a rapid rate though.
shareSo do lower economic non producing trumptards. And based on there being a much higher proportion of red states that require government handouts, there might be more of them.
https://www.businessinsider.com/red-states-are-welfare-queens-2011-8
Thats not wellfare eYeDEF. I also couden't help but notice alot of the lib states are in a ton of debt compared to the red states some of which actually have balanced budgets.
https://howmuch.net/articles/the-united-states-of-debt
Some of it is. Some of that federal spending naturally goes to welfare, medicaid, the sort that benefits welfare queens.
Regardless I think you're confusing state debt with balanced budgets, since they're not at all the same thing. States are required by law to balance their budgets every year. The exception is Vermont.
That sounds like your wet dream Satan - anyone you consider Liberal being culled...As history has shown and will continue to show: it's idiots like yourself that pose the greatest threat to our survival.
shareSoon? I doubt it. Long term? Yes. We WILL inevitably go extinct one day when the sun becomes a red giant.
I DO think we'll eventually reduce our population by a significant rate through a war(s).
I'll tell you what though--humanity deserves to go extinct. Collectively, we've not earned our keep and have done more harm than good for our planet. If mother nature were to one day say "enough" and wipe us all out I couldn't blame her.
Wow! Hell must have frozen over, this is something we can actually agree on, humanity certainly dose deserve all the horror Mother Nature can dish out... I have absolutely no sympathy for the victims of the wild fires raging out west or the victims of last year's monster hurricanes particularly Puerto Rico, thoes people should have known the meteorological risk and yet they still inhabited the island.
It's not just the U.S that's feeling nature's fury....over in Greece there's wild fires that have killed at least 80 and in Japan there was recent flooding that I believe took over a hundred lives and now I think are experiencing a heat wave that's taking even more lives, so you can tell your wife to thank her people for all the pollution that's being spewed into our panets atmosphere, and before you go defending her country...yes there are other countries that produce a good amount of pollution but on almost every list of countries that produce the most amount of pollution it's usually Asian countries and India that produce the most. Just accept it, your wife comes from a fucked up country.
So, tell me, Lady--which IMDB troll are you who was butthurt by my posts in a past life on IMDB? Hmmmm? I've pissed a lot of trolls off on IMDB, which one were you? :)
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