Asteroids, Nuclear Wars, even (though extremely remote) Black Holes?! There are so many factors that in the end could decide the fate of human civilization! The only reason that we, as a race, are here in front of our keyboards today is since we were lucky. There were many plagues, epidemics, and other disasters that had the potential to end Human civilization, but Nature decided it wasn't our time. How do we know we'll be so lucky in the future?
I mean to say, remember the Black Plague that swept through Europe? It wiped MILLIONS of people; men, women, and children.
One asteroid alone ended the dominant species of their time, the dinosaurs, so who's to say that couldn't happen to us. As the dominant species of this earth, WE are the ones at greatest risk.
My question to you all, what can WE, as a people, do to prevent such a calamity?
2006-08-31 12:08:55 · 10 answers · asked by Erehwon 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
The future of humanity is a question of risk management. The greatest risk to our survival in the short term is ourselves. Therefore we should do everything possible to reduce the risks of war or ecological collapse. Against cosmic cataclysms we have no defense exept colonizing the universe so that local disasters do not extinguish all of humanity.
2006-08-31 12:29:04 · answer #1 · answered by d/dx+d/dy+d/dz 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We need to give humanity a functional society that seeks maximum sustainable options to attain a whole population commensurate relationship whereby our collective intelligence is more capable of predicting and avoiding violence. We'll need to leave the many zero-sum games we currently suffer. We have a common enemy. By aligning ourselves with only some and not all, we give it power. Humanity needs to be identified as the only viable institution, all others are illegitimate. Looks like climate change is far worse than the UN is allowed to convey, what triggered the largest earthquake in Japan's history and helped lead to the ongoing and worsening release of long-lived highly energetic radioisotopes. The interglacial may be collapsing as it has under the influence of sharp rise in greenhouse gases repeatedly before with massive tipping points from hospitable to cold. See the noctilucents growing to ever record breaking persistence and extent? Current institutions, so-called government and non-government, can't admit the current system is terminally dysfunctional leading to massive censorship and propaganda that denies the dangers. That is not what will help us survive. The information explosion will force us to find a way to reward, secure and sustain altruism unlike our current anarchy that puts the most corrupt into positions of the greatest power.
2014-09-21 14:56:13 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We can set around and think about the what if question until we all go crazy. What do u need to survive?? we may be able to obtain a small amount of food. One thing if we don't get the population explosion we haven't got a chance. We will have a bad war and kill many. Most of the film is based on fear and why worry u will live until u die.
2006-08-31 12:54:16 · answer #3 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-01 03:47:50 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The world is going to end at some time between now and some other unkown time, and you can't stop it. All you are doing by asking this question is wasting the time inbetween.
2006-08-31 12:11:52 · answer #5 · answered by Adam 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the end, it's inevitable, we're going to go. But as for our future sucess, I'd go with Hawking in saying: We gotta look to the stars.
2006-09-01 10:24:32 · answer #6 · answered by TheBlackWalker 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's nothing we can do. The end of the human race will happen and all we can do is watch it.
2006-08-31 12:15:25 · answer #7 · answered by rastus7742 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think Humanity is worth saving? If we destroy ourselves we have no one to blame but ourselves. If some natural calamity destroys us then that's it, we can't blame anything if we are dead.
2006-08-31 12:22:54 · answer #8 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get rid of the Bush administration
2006-08-31 14:42:39 · answer #9 · answered by axis mentis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we colonize other planets, solar systems and galaxies, so if something happens there, we are still here.
2006-08-31 12:34:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋