What he was getting at was environmental destruction. He stated that the only solution was for humans to colonize another plantet or star system. Is he right? Did he hit the nail on the head with this one?
2006-06-15 03:00:56 · 19 answers · asked by cannonball 1 in Environment
The man is a legendary genuis. Read his book, A Brief History of Time. There aren't many smarter people than him. No one would possible know if he is right, but I think it best to take advice from someone as brainiac as this man.
2006-06-15 03:05:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
When Jesus Christ came the fist time, His main mission seemed to be to teach us how to live on earth. If I had to sum up his teaching it would be, to teach us how to be good stewards to the land and its people.
Not to follow these teaching would surely lead us to destruction. It goes without saying; If you don't take care of earth it becomes unable to support life as we know it today.
For the most part, We have not done the best job possible. We have let our desire for wealth get the best of us and forgo our responsibility to the land.
Today, we face Global warming due to CO2 emissions, Along with the temperature increase will most likely come more and stronger earth quakes due to the expansion of gases in the inner core of the earth. We face earths polar caps melting and with that a redistribution of the planets weight , which may cause more earth quakes and flooding in certain regions, maybe even a pole shift in the planet, rendering it unstable for a time, destructive for sure. We face threats of virus (bird flu) which is expected to be very deadly. We even have a meteorite that deposited a red blood like substance, in India, back in 2001.
All these events have been predicted to happen before the second coming of Christ. Today they seem to be upon us.
I was kind of hoping it would be easier to save this planet. But at some point global warming could become irriversable. It begins to fuel itself without any help from us.
I hope it has not come to that. I don't think my future kids want to live on a planet like Mars: I know Sharon Stone was not crazy about it, just ask Arnold Schwarzenegger. LOL !
2006-06-15 15:47:09 · answer #2 · answered by Joe_Pardy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its only a matter of time, and even though Mr. Hawking is brilliant, it's impossible to truly know if the Earth will be unlivable. It's been "livable" for many millions of years. What's to say that it won't be around another, oh say, 100,000 years from now in a livable state.
Our ongoing existance as a species, though, would be made far more likely if we were able to keep our eggs in more than one basket. I mean, we're one meteor the size of Texas away from being the cosmic equivalent of a bug on the windshield of your car.
2006-06-15 10:03:59 · answer #3 · answered by Dan w 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If human growth remains unchecked, I believe that he will be correct. But, personally I think that human population will reach a critical point and we will have a significant population reversal event. This event might be a flu pandemic, a non-world ending meteorite strike in the pacific or atlantic ocean, a really big, stupid war, or something like that. The only question in my mind is whether or not the planet will still be livable when our population is reduced to acceptable levels.
2006-06-15 10:06:36 · answer #4 · answered by wcholberg 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't recall seeing "soon" in his statements...
But he is right, if we continue wrecking the environment at the rate we're going now. We either have to make some real changes in the way we live on this planet (including limiting the number of children we have), or we have to find other places to live. Those are really our only two choices.
2006-06-15 10:04:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That depends on us however if he is speaking of revelations and the fact that the heavens and earth will pass away um he could be right.
2006-06-15 10:04:10 · answer #6 · answered by xx_muggles_xx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not exactly "soon", but yes, it will happen somtime in the future.
It is because the sun will get old which will make it bigger and it will get so hot that we will need to move.
2006-06-15 10:09:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
like any creature on this planet we will die out ...and a diffrent species will appear that can live in water and on land and withstand hot tempretures..without us polluting the atmosphere the earth will cool down and the water species will move out on to the land and will dominate the earth and will be like vermin that we used to be...
2006-06-15 10:05:44 · answer #8 · answered by kathy_madwoman_bates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The earth will be unlivable. It just depends when.
2006-06-15 10:03:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quality as devised as quantity. As doomsday in a fog. In another enlightened union you pot.
2006-06-16 06:20:54 · answer #10 · answered by Qyn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋