How far into the future do you think Humans will survive?
What do you guys think?
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...at the rate we're going, I may live to see retirement.....
All I know for sure is that my generation is really gonna have to buckle down to fix the mess we have inherited.
I believe human beings, AND the earth, will be around for quite some time yet. However, the quality of life is SURE to deteriorate to a hellish existence for ALL if we can't get our sh*t straight pretty soon. And we won't.
Until the next major natural catastrophe. Like another ice age, or a meteor crashing to earth, or the book of Revelation actually coming true...personally, I wouldn't mind scenarios like "Reign of Fire" or "After Earth". But that's if we're playing our favorite apocalypse scenario. 
That's a good question. Let me just say, I don't really want to survive any kind of Apocalypse - think of Lud and all those places the Tet went through. Technology gone for good or gone haywire. I can see a world like that happening some time. I don't think we'll cease to exist, but I think something could happen that might make us wish we didn't exist - maybe not now, but in the not too distant future.
The not to distant future .....Mad max v zombies v mega city 1 Hell who cares as long as i get to see my daughter grow up and become a time travelling astronaut frozen in space , ready to be thawed out in the future... and i have viewed the thunder road trilogy / the gunslinger movie- and the new starwars trilogy- then my life is complete - oh yeh and someone buys the rights to my very own space opera, turning it into a battle beyond the stars masterpiece.
Until then i wait sat on my deck chair on the beach with my missus by my side and my dog digging holes in the sand.
Did anyone see "these final hours"?
Until then i wait sat on my deck chair on the beach with my missus by my side and my dog digging holes in the sand.
Did anyone see "these final hours"?
We don't prognosticate well.
We're adaptable, and we'll go on for quite a while. It may well not be how we want, and it may well exceed what we expect. But we've shown great adaption, and we'll survive for a long, long time, sometimes even despite ourselves.
We're adaptable, and we'll go on for quite a while. It may well not be how we want, and it may well exceed what we expect. But we've shown great adaption, and we'll survive for a long, long time, sometimes even despite ourselves.
We've been around for a long time, and I'm guessing we'll be around for even longer than we've been here so far--I think we're still in the first 1% of our species' time here on earth. Many future populations will die due to various calamities in the ebb and flow of future history, but we won't go extinct for a long time.
I don't think we'll do ourselves in through pollution, war, disease or overpopulation, not entirely to extinction, but that doesn't mean our current way of life is sustainable in the long term--life will just be very different for future humans. But no species lasts forever, unless you're an extremophile like bacteria or a tardigrade and can go into remission for a long time until conditions change.
I don't think we'll do ourselves in through pollution, war, disease or overpopulation, not entirely to extinction, but that doesn't mean our current way of life is sustainable in the long term--life will just be very different for future humans. But no species lasts forever, unless you're an extremophile like bacteria or a tardigrade and can go into remission for a long time until conditions change.
I think we'll be around for some time, in spite of ourselves.
No clue. From a Christian perspective (or, my experience and what I have heard) the preachers I listen to believe it will be soon (meaning this generation or the next) - I'm not certain nor do I have any feel for our "odds" - I'm just living life day by day, and, to be honest, don't give it much thought.
They've been saying that for close to 2,000 years now. No, seriously. Ever,y now and then, a group gets together who can see it coming at a date certain, and the date passes, and the group fades.
Examples just within my lifetime. I remember reading a book by a guy named Hal Lindsay, The Late Great Planet Earth, who was relatively specific with his predictions. When pretty much none of it came to pass, I have to give him credit for literary cojones, because he wrote a sequel, which I didn't read because I wasn't going to get suckered a second time. Then there was Y2K, which extended (not far enough) family thought was the clear End Times, and they waited for Gabriel to sound off at midnight (although they didn't quit their jobs).
I think we'll survive because we have the ability to extensively alter our environment to our needs, rather than being completely subject to its whim. It's a really good survival strategy. It's just hard on the rest of the biosphere.
I think preacher's say this to try to get people to come forward or get more committed to the faith (mostly, so "their" church will be more successful) -- I try to be optimistic, but, I think ultimately, most Preacher's have their own agenda, and, convince themselves it's God's.... I tend to agree with you ....
Well, humans will probably survive for a rather long time but our kind of civilisation has not too long time left to run. My generation is safe i think and perhaps Cappys will not see the change either but it will come soon there after. Humans though is very adaptable and will very likely survive a change. It will be less humans and they might be isolated from eachother in different continents or something like it. If that happens likely somewhere a new homo species will evolve. Human species have a tendency to outconquer other human species and the new one might be better adapted to the new circumstances. In the end that would mean the end to homo sapiens as a species but i think humans would continue to live on our planet if we/they don't mess it up too much.
Once the cell-phone towers fall, anarchy will ensue.
Maybe until tomorrow. Or another 2,000 years. Can't really say. My Magic 8 ball doesn't predict that far ahead.
