IIf we knew an irreversible catastrophic change in earths environment was certain to happen in the future and?

Question

If we knew an irreversible catastrophic change in earths environment was certain to happen in the future and that Humankind had ONLY two choices. Choice number one being we as humans do nothing, accept our fate and allow our species to perish forever OR the second choice, alter the genetics of humans to adapt to the new environment and guarantee the survival of humans? What is your answer?

Answer 1

From dust we have come to dust we shall return, accept our fate and let the Earth heal when it is rid of the cancer known as humanity.

Answer 2

As a matter of course, I refuse to acknowledge a situation where there are only two choices; it's that kind of absolute-dualist thinking that brought us the "us vs. them" mentality which is the basis of the un-funny shenanigans in the Middle East and everywhere else, for that matter.
But addressing your scenario of an unstoppable, irreversible and catastrophic change to the planetary environment, I submit that you would have to re-phrase the question pretty severely in order to force the choice down to the two you describe.
If the disaster were, say, fifty-plus years down the road, at least a significant portion of humanity can and would choose to pool its resources to colonize Luna, Mars, and any other solar mass larger than a city block that was otherwise available. The remaining humans could still choose to undergo the genetic alterations you suggest or not, but there would still be a viable gene-pool of 'pre-cataclysm' humans in the universe.
If, on the other hand, the disaster was so immediate that there was no time to set up the infrastructure necessary to evacuate any portion of humanity, I submit that there would also be no time to set up the genetic alterations infrastructure, either, but I do believe that there would still be three or more viable options available.

"I don't believe in a no-win scenario." -Capt. James T. Kirk

Answer 3

There have been catastrophic changes in earths environment throughout history, whole species became extinct by the thousands, and, in point of fact, we DO know another one is coming, people have been warning about it for decades and we are still doing nothing about it. A proposal as radical as yours could not get popular support, and therefor funding, until it was much to late for it to do any good. It is the nature of humanity to ignore problems on the theory that someone or something else will take care of it.

Answer 4

we've not come with the aid of nigh on 4 billion years of evolution without weathering a hurricane or 2. To take an occasion, we are only between the kinds of issues that our ancestors of sixty 5 million years in the past stepped forward right into a results of ultimate catastrophic exchange contained in the earth's ecosystem.

Answer 5

We wish it was that easy. Fortunately, we have been fulfilling the prophetic events that play out in the final script. The only thing we do not have is the time-line. After the beginning of the Iraq war fulfilled parts of Jeremiah 50 and 51.
Boaz.

Answer 6

If there is no way to prevent it - alter the genetics. I mean, humans developed through thousands and thousands of years and if we have to alter the genetics now to have a chance to survive, yes, I vote for that one, it's like accelerated evolution.

Answer 7

Either way there are no more humans.

We either perish as a species, or genetically alter ourselves into another species.

Usually we have more than two options, but that is my answer to your limited scenario.

Answer 8

alter the genetics of humans did you see the movie water world
That famous actor can't remember his name grew gills and could breath underwater. It ended real terrrible I thought he would take two wives and have a bunch of half fish kids.
Wait for the enviroment to clean up.

Answer 9

I say neither i say lets try prevent the diaster from having and if that fails then planet is dommed and for say alter humansd not save any other life forms on planet as well is damn stupid if ask me its more then us on this planet ith threat being wiped out

Answer 10

I believe mother nature will look after herself, whatever mankind can dish up, as she has done through all the ages.
She is not bound by time either, like we are, and will do what she has to to survive, in her own time.