If humanity carries on as we are, do you think we will end up rendering ourselves extinct?

Question

If yes, how long do you think till we do ourselves in, and what might be the primary cause?

Answer 1

Yes, for the most part, I believe we will be the cause of our extinction. Our minds have progressed advancing technology faster than we have progressed in our understanding of the consequences of our technology, be it ecology, weapons, etc.

I think we probably have a few hundred years left, if we wake up soon.

Answer 2

Yes...Earth has already entered into in the Process of Dying.

Although we won't see it in our Lifetimes! (unless hit by meteors or asteroids, or, Nuclear Bombs are detonated all-over-the planet in a Major World War 3.)

But our Water, Air & Land are increasingly showing the effects of Pollution...Alarmingly So!...Scientific studies reveal how rapidly the Polar Icecaps are melting, the Ozone Layer has depleted significantly causing Earth's atmosphere to Heat to unprecedented levels ( ie. Greenhouse Effect ), etc, etc.

And, We're talking about changes that historically take many thousands of years to occur - happening within mere decades!
Mankind's entire existence on Earth is barely a blip in the timeline of the Universe...Yet, we're poisoning an entire planet in just a few hundred years of industrialization, manufacturing plants, oil spills, automobile emissions, heating gases, etc.

Population Increases only create more problems...We need more land, more food from the land, more energy demands, more oil & gas, more trees from endangered forests,more automobiles, more industries...And, produce even more Pollution.

We are depleting all Natural Resources much faster than they can be renewed.

So Yes, We will do ourselves in, at the current pace!...How long?...200,...1,000...10,000 years?

Perhaps, that's why the Space Program is gaining Priority Status now!???

Answer 3

NO, (we) will not render ourselves extinct, our planet will! Sometime in the far future, we will be hit by several meteors the size of Texas and that will be it! These are not my words, they are the words of scientists all over the world! None of any of us now on this planet will have to worry, they say in about 300 years! But one scientist said it could happen at any time! Oh great! Sure hope he's wrong!

Answer 4

I don't think world is going to end in near future. This is just part of life, the way we are behaving.

I strongly believe that Nature knows how to balance and whatever is happening is due to that. The way we think, the innovations we invent and the threat we place to Nature in some parts of the world.

Mother Nature is trying to balance out high population with diseases unknown before. Exploitation of land with destruction of the same with pollution. Once a land is polluted, it becomes unfit for humans to live, they vacate. Once they vacate or get eradicated, Nature again revitalises it.

And lo, next generation comes and occupies it :)

Answer 5

Eventually we will be extinct. I think the things we are doing now are aiding in that, but it could eventually be any number of things. Then a new species will become the forefront of existence on earth. I saw the Future is Wild on the discovery channel and got really depressed thinking about how one day there will be no memory of our lives on earth.

Answer 6

The pendulum of life keeps shifting and sometimes it gets it right, Nature always has a way of taking care of over population, but as far as humanity goes, if we don't soon learn how to live together, we might end up clubbing one another to death.

Answer 7

Carries on as we are? Going Extinct? Our population is climbing if you didn't notice. Barring a meteor impact, we're not going anywhere.

Answer 8

No. If all of the emviornmental calamities predicted do happen they will only reduce the number of people on the earth because it will only be able to support fewer people. We are too spread out to be wiped out. We do slowly learn from our mistakes.

Answer 9

Read the book of Revelations it's a history of the future.

Answer 10

sure, don't know how long, but how can a race exist if children are killed before being born, relationships that don't produce children are promoted, and our actions cause incurable diseases?