How much longer do you think the human race will survive?

Question

I heard there is suppose to be another ice age in 50,000-70,000
years.My guess is 100,000 years if we can withstand the ice age.

But if the ice age is too cold for us,
my guess is 50,000 years.

Answer 1

Pfff Ice age, who cares. Our early anscestors survived an ice age with the most primitive of dwellings and tools (http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/human/human_evolution/new_batch1.shtml) - if they could do it back then we could easily do it now.

The fact that it is not for another 50,000-70,000 years means there is no doubt we could survive it. Hell not only would we have technology beyond anything we can currently dream of, we would easily have achieved interstellar travel and migration (1000 years from now we will probably have done it). Inter-stellar travel is certainly possible: http://www.physorg.com/news8817.html

I think as long as we can achieve interstellar travel (in which case our existance is not bound up with the earth) we will exist for a very long time.

Answer 2

Actually, global warming isn't going to be a problem if "they" go through with the idea of shooting sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere every year to cool the earth off(Seriously. I'm not kidding. Look it up.). If it starts getting cold, we just have to start emitting fluorocarbons to heat the earth back up again. The main concern is, according to the new t.v. series, discovery:atlas (on the discovery channel), is the rate at which China is using up resources. If they continue using metals at the rate they are now, we'll need a new Earth in about thirty years.
There is also the notion of being killed off by super strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria, due to the heavy amounts of antibiotics America is putting into animals raised for food.
I'm gonna guess150 years for Earth, then maybe 100 more on Mars and that's it.

Answer 3

If global warming continues, and we continue polluting the atmosphere, then the earth will overheat with the Greenhouse effect like Venus. At this present rate I would say about 400 years left for the human race. The other option is a total nuclear war, which could happen in less than 50 years. We are using up all our resources very quickly. In any case the human race will die off in around 5 billion years when the sun dies out due to its expending all its hydrogen fuel.

Answer 4

I provide humanity some thousand years. With our ever increasing inhabitants, we will dissipate further and further supplies till finally we've not got something left. i think of that is going to take around 10 to fifteen billion human beings to empty the earth completely, for that reason ensuing in starvation and cannibalism till we fall under a undeniable factor and we the two die of ailment or of starvation.

Answer 5

Well, the way we are going with completely distroying our environment, and over populating the world....even if we do survive as long as you predict, life would be hell...Im glad I wont be around.

Answer 6

Oh, I don't think we'll make it that long. I'm sure we'll kill ourselves off before the ice age hits

Answer 7

500 years maybe.. Im pretty sure we are gunna blow ourselfs up before the next ice age..

Answer 8

depends who the next U.S. president is, if its another Bush, I give the human race less than 10 years

Answer 9

as long as I live.