Can you debate my opinion as to the fate of the human race?

Question

What’s your opinion as to these points?

Unfortunately, the human race is predisposed to failure. Here are just three of the reasons why.

1) The human race is predisposed to procrastination which means that we will never try to fix something until it's "in our face". Even then, it has to be "absolutely" proven that it is recognizably affecting our "quality of life" before we will act. For example, take the environmental situation. We still have people (generally for economic reasons) fighting the preponderance of scientific data that indicates we better do something to fix the environment. They seem to think that if they are justified in doing nothing as long as they can find "any little piece of data" which "may" indicate that global warming isn't occurring. Let me ask you this; is it better to act and later discover that the situation was not as "dire" as we suspected or to do nothing and later discover that it's too late to fix???

2) We are naturally territorial (yes, like many other creatures). The problem is that the "sticks & stones" (which were replaced by fire, spears, arrows, gunpowder, etc.) we used to kill the challengers to "our territory" in the beginning have evolved into biological and nuclear weapons with the capability to poison the planet. By the way, how does territory get "claimed" anyway? I mean, at some point in the past nobody "owned" any property but now we all think we have the right to "own" that which was never "BOUGHT". BTW, yes, I "own" land and a house but I still stand by my point that neither the former owner nor I actually ever have had or currently have the rights to buy and sell it.

3) We have worldwide leadership that for the most part is either ignorant or indifferent to the truth (or, in the case of the U.S., BOTH). Without leadership, we will never make any headway and, regrettably, I believe that there are too many governments that are more concerned with either staying ahead of or catching up to, everyone else and are willing to accept the consequences of future problems in order reap the "rewards" of today.

Maybe, if we get lucky, we’ll get a “mini” version of the movie “The day after tomorrow” that will force the world into action. Unfortunately, according to the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, James Hansen (as well as many other scientists), we have 10 or less yrs to turn it around and I don’t think we will. That’s why my wife and I have decided not to bring another life into a world that has more of a negative outlook now than it ever has. Enjoy life and live for the now because too many governments, and many corporations, are steadfast in their path to destroying the future.

Answer 1

Human beings have emotions and emotions always trump reason... but then if you think reason is the solution then go watch and anthill for a couple of hours... insects are quite reasonable but we wouldn't want to live like them...

so the answer is yes, we will go extinct and be replaced by some newer version with a better design that will work for a while and then the cycle will repeat...

the answer is... evolution works and we are part of it....

Answer 2

You are right about the human race, but it's not God's will for things to continue this way much longer. Most of human history has, in effect, been an experiment for Satan to see if his way of doing things is better than God's. But this experiment will end soon. The Bible explains all of these things.
In Genesis chapters 2 and 3, it shows how man got a fine start, but then something went wrong. There are so many details that I won't go into, but when Jesus appeared on the earthly scene, he came to show that he was God's chosen one to eventually cause God's purpose for the earth to actually be fulfilled. The only thing is that this is taking a lot of time, from our viewpoint anyway.
In Matthew ch. 24 and 25, he gave numerous signs of the last days, as they're called, as far as world events go. Then in 2 Timothy 3:1-5 shows what kinds of attitudes people would have during the same time period. It's not hard to see that we live in those last days. In Revelation 19:11-21, it tells how everything in opposition to God will be put out of the way, and then in chapter 20:11-15, and ch. 21 and 22 describe many things that wil come after. Mankind is imperfect and that is why we have so many problems and cannot make much improvement, if any. Also because Satan is controlling the current world system.

Answer 3

oh so negative a view of the world, while you believe this to be true it is true but only to the extent that the human brain can allow, I don't think the human race is predisposed to failure we are more advance evolutionary than ever if you look at all the ancient cultures that have died out the Aztec and the Maya Romans etc you see a pattern of events and while it wouldn't be the most productive thing that could happen ,cos wed be dead it might be that mother earth needs some time to heal . Few million years or so, another race of further advanced humans than us finds our ancient remains. We have to keep our mind on the positive and live in the here and now of every moment ,love play run jump laugh eat sleep peace julie