I know this will never happen, but think of what the world would be like 10 years from now.
2006-09-23 10:01:50 · 16 answers · asked by LHR 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
20,40,80,100 years and so on
2006-09-23 10:41:23 · update #1
extinction thats what would happen.
2006-09-23 10:04:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the mid-1990's, P.D. James, a renown English mystery writer, ventured out of her field and wrote "The Children of Men", where the human race becomes unable to reproduce in 1995. The story is set in 2021, 26 years later, and she provided a very vivid description of how she perceived what would happen.
By 2021, England had become a benign dictatorship. Schools were then geared towards teaching survival skills for those that would live into old age without the benefit of a younger generation present. Many women would become emotionally attached to dolls as substitutes for children. Something of a general pessimism pervaded the planet.
As a side note, a movie adaptation of the film is not in theatres in the UK and will be released in the US this December.
2006-09-26 13:54:18 · answer #2 · answered by Ѕємι~Мαđ ŠçїєŋŧιѕТ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The effect will only truly be felt in about 50 years. Economies will slow down, some things will depreciate in value, some things will spike up in costs, no one would be a playa cos there's not people enough to go around. Your nearest neighbour may be miles off. Smaller settlements will gradually be abandoned as people are likely to flock to form larger ones. The last book ever written will be an semi-autobiography titled Last Life in the Universe, but no one gets to, or bothers to read it.
In short, there will be social, cultural and economical retardation, until the day everyone dies out.
2006-09-23 19:52:23 · answer #3 · answered by Saffren 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the last generation become teenagers and act like it is the end of the world... well, at least that generation will be right!
After we are all extinct, then I guess that what's left of the natural world would let out a huge sigh of relief and then forget that we were ever here.
2006-09-27 04:54:55 · answer #4 · answered by karlrogers2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably very little reduction in world populations in 10 years. Try 30, 60, and 100 years.
2006-09-23 17:11:54 · answer #5 · answered by tom_terrific73 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would say that if survival is mans' purpose - it certainly is mine -then your proposition would be immoral, as it would lead to extinction sooner rather than later - who would take care of the elderly. They would die of unnatural causes because there would be no youth to provide for them.
It reminds me of Kant's categorical imperative stating that one should not do what he could not simultaneously will all of the humanity to do. With that line of reasoning, what if every woman had an abortion or if everyone practiced homosexuality? The result would be the same as the absence of procreation - extinction of the human race. Are perpetual abstinence, homosexuality, and abortion immoral?
2006-09-23 18:10:28 · answer #6 · answered by rlw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 years from now, we'd have some serious problems. The health care system would begin collapsing as a result of the aging population without a supply of new young health care workers to take care of them. As time went on it would become exponentially more disastrous, until finally the entire world would be littered with old dead people, and lots of happy vultures.
2006-09-23 17:07:23 · answer #7 · answered by Orange Platypus 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I believe that people need to use birth control to not have too many kids, and some people should not have kids at all. We need to do that in order to not let our planet become overpopulated, people need to quit having so many kids. But as for your question, of course some people would need to have kids, because if no one at all had kids anymore, the human species would go extinct.
2006-09-23 17:13:52 · answer #8 · answered by GERMANY EURO CHAMPS 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If everyone in the world stopped having children I could finally walk through the mall without wanting to spray chloroform to stop them all from screaming and yelling all the damn time.
2006-09-23 17:31:19 · answer #9 · answered by ModerndayMadman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In approximately 80 years the planet would be a much quieter place.
2006-09-23 17:09:33 · answer #10 · answered by Canadian Ken 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
we would stagnate......it is the new generation that keeps thing going in progress....whether it is made better for the children or science has been taken a step further by the children.
we need to reproduce to keep things progressing.
but there would be less demand on resources and the destruction of the environment would stop,
2006-09-23 17:12:55 · answer #11 · answered by Marg N 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋