how long has the human race got til we destruct the earth? is it fair to have children in this new generation?

Answer 1

I asked a similar question:
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I believe we have less than 100 years until the complete collapse of the earth as we know it. Too little is being done too late.

I also think it is unfair to have children and force this on them when we've just gone.

I also believe the sooner the planet is rid of the parasite called humanity the better for it, and the sooner a new set of creatures evolve to live on our waste heap that we'll leave behind.

Ho hum.

Answer 2

Your question presumes that humans _will_ someday "destruct the earth," but I don't think that's been at all proven. If anything, the enviros and other doomsayers have had a remarkably poor track record. People have been predicting for hundreds of years that in just another couple decades (from when the prediction was made), Earth will be wall-to-wall with humans, starving en masse and thinking that Soylent Green might not be so bad. That belief was "de rigeur" in the 1970's as a prediction of what the 1990's would be like.

Other predictions asserted with expert confidence, and were taken as givens by the media & society, that long before the year 2000 we would be deep into another ice age, completely out of oil, and/or extinct from nuclear war. Keep in mind, in their time these were regarded as incontrovertible, indisputable FACTS; they WOULD happen.

Trouble is for these naysayers, we humans are quite a bit more clever in solving problems than their imaginations allow for, and the Earth is quite a bit larger than the problems we seem to be creating for it. Which is not to say that we _don't_ have any serious problems on the horizon, just that these problems aren't going to be the end of the world that the teeth-gnashers get their jollies from portraying them as.

Answer 3

The human race will last as long as there are still usable natural resources on this world. If we can find ways to preserve the world and all its resources, then we have a pretty long while to go. But if we just stay at this rate, i think that we will have less than 200 years on the earth. Technology will probably get better by then, and we will find ways to use the unusable today, its like looking back 200 years and tinking about how we thought that that time was the peak on the human race, and there was nothing else to be discovered, but look at how we are today.

Seriously,though, if we want to halp move that along, we need to cut back on the world population, or at least the rate at which it is growing.

I my opinion, and i know this would be totally contreversial anywhere in the world, so don't get mad at me for saying this, but i think we need to let the avian flu be. We just need to stop trying to find a cure for it and let nature take its course. If you look at the population growth these last couple hundred of years, it has increased exponentially because people were dying naturally from disease and stuff, so i think we need to cut back on the world population and let nature take its course. It is kind of like a foresdt fire, it has to happen every once in a while, otherwise, there would be too much forest, and it would die off because of overcrowding.

So, if you want to have children, have a few, and treat them well, you know-give them a nice education and stuff, because they say that children are our future

Answer 4

The population of the Earth has now reached about 6.5 billion people and depleting natural resources and destroying the environment at an alarming rate, which is increasing.

The best scientific estimates are that the Earth can only support 1.5 billion people and yet we are increasing from 6.5 billion by 86 million annually.

Our efforts to recycle, use renewable resources etc are pathetically inadequate.It is only the west that is trying.
India has much bigger population than Europe and USA together and China is bigger still and they are doing nothing. What will happen when they and the other billions in Asia and Africa reach the US levels of consumption and pollution?

Many years ago Malthus predicted that food shortage would put a limit to the Earths population. He proved wrong on that because of scientific progress in food production and ignorant fools have been crowing. But he was not all that wrong. It is pollution, destruction of environment and resources that are the limiting factors.

The human species does not deserve to survive and it will not.

Answer 5

It has never been " fair " to have children in any time frame, the world has always been in turmoil. But having children is a natural state of being and I am grateful my parents had me, even though I have had my share of hardship and the world is definitely an unpleasant place at times. I would not trade in my existence just because life is not fair, and most humanity actually has no humanity. Also keep in mind, humans will never destruct the earth, when we have caused enough destruction and chaos, the Earth will simply shrug us off and move on to another phase in it's existence.

Answer 6

For starters we can never destroy this earth only ourselves, This planet has been through a lot worse than humanity. Sadly children are the future and will inherit a hell as well as a paradise. But how you raise your child will decide the level of enjoyment the life will be. Don't worry humanity will not end in your child's or grandchild's life time.

Answer 7

Your lifetime odds of dying as a consequence of an asteroid or meteor impact are closer to 1 in 200,000, however. Better to eat well, exercise, wear your seat-belt & have some fun!

Cause of Death Lifetime Odds
Heart Disease
1-in-5

Cancer
1-in-7

Stroke
1-in-23

Accidental Injury
1-in-36

Motor Vehicle Accident*
1-in-100

Intentional Self-harm (suicide)
1-in-121

Falling Down
1-in-246

Assault by Firearm
1-in-325

Fire or Smoke
1-in-1,116

Natural Forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.)
1-in-3,357

Electrocution*
1-in-5,000

Drowning
1-in-8,942

Air Travel Accident*
1-in-20,000

Flood* (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-30,000

Legal Execution
1-in-58,618

Tornado* (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-60,000

Lightning Strike (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-83,930

Snake, Bee or other Venomous Bite or Sting*
1-in-100,000

Earthquake (included also in Natural Forces above)1-in-131,890

Dog Attack 1-in-147,717

Asteroid Impact* 1-in-200,000**

Tsunami* 1-in-500,000

Fireworks Discharge 1-in-615,488

Answer 8

Average the world has a 100 yrs, it is not only up to our Kids but our Children's Children to save the future and also us!

We have to make the difference and enlighten our children as best we can environmentally as well as morally...children have so much to offer the world if led in the right direction...so yes have children they make such a beautiful change in our lives that makes suffering this world all the more worth while...

Answer 9

Having children has got to be a personal decision, and I believe each new generation has asked that same question in modern times. Who knows, the child you have could very well be the person who discovers the solution to a major issue which will heal our earth.

I feel that people need to determine if they have the time and desire to raise their children to respect the earth and love all it's people. To me, that is more important in making the decision to have children.

Answer 10

If you want to know more answers on how long we have, though the numbers are not clear...the signs of how long we have are clear in the Bible; especially the book of Revelations. (look to link below) And I do not know if it is fair to have children in the newer generations on a worldly scale, but I know on a Godly scale, God still desires us to live life despite the circumstances of the world going on around us. So honestly, from a biblical standpoint and my beliefs, having children in these newer generations is quite fair. Read the Bible (Romans 16:19 for one), and see for yourself on this topic (use a concordance) that even the innocent will go to heaven, because as Romans 16:19 speaks of, the innocent knows know evil. And young children are innocent, they know no evil because they have yet to learn. So I believe based on God's Word, it is completely fair to have children even in the ends of times.