What do you think are the three biggest threats to the human species?

Question

I Have some humble opinions on this one. (surprise) 1. Over consumption/pollution. Solution: divert all global oil subsidies to r and d and use of green energy (solar, wind, hydroelectic, electromagnetic, geothermal, etc) 2. Overpopulation. Solution: stablize world govts through U.N. emphasis on basic human rights and elimination of economic/political corruption. Global education K-12 (especially for females) with a strong, early critical thinking component. 3. Current wealth distribution. Solution: U.N. discussion of global tax code along progressive lines for income, capital gains and estates. Example. Income: $0-$30,000:0%, $30.000-$40,000:5%, $40,000-$50,000:10%, $50,000-$100,000:20%, $100,000-$200,000:25%, $200,000-$300,000:30% $300,000-$400,000:35% $400,000-$500,000:40%, $500,000-$600,000:45% $600,000-$700,000:50%, $700,000-$800,000:55%, $800,000-$900,000:60%, $900,000-$1,000,000:65%, $1,000,000+:70%. The numbers are negotiable, it's the principle I'm trying to get accross.

Answer 1

Your solutions to 1 and 2 are good, but the U.N doesn't have the ability to impose a global tax code, and even if it did it wouldn't be plausible. They have funds, such as the UNFPA, which adress the problems such as overpopulation throug education, access to contraception, and sanitation. They could work to increase the wealth of their funds, but they cannot impose a worldwide tax.

Answer 2

Interesting. I find it difficult to consider the facts when so many political factions post info on their websites. A close friend is a chemical engineer and has done a great deal of reading on the subject and believes there is anything but consensus. His take is that it is way more complicated than the scientific community knows. Isn't it amazing how some people call it a fact? I don't know of anything scientific that was not a fact one day and fiction the next. It's consistent in science. I believe we should act in a responsible manner to keep our planet clean because it's the right thing to do. No one is for pollution, and I think many people have become more aware of chemicals, etc that are simply harmful. Al Gore does not know more than any scientist, and he is making money from it. If he were a Republican, every liberal on here would blast him as a profiteer, so that is a reason it be skeptical. We'll see. The most important issue is oil dependency. We are enriching our enemy, and we need to become self sufficient.

Answer 3

I agree that pollution and environmental degredation is the primary threat to humankind. However, although I must apologize for doom-saying, I doubt that by this point any solution can be reached. The tipping-point for global warming has likely been reached and passed in recent years; even if we stop polluting completely today, pollution will remain in the atmosphere for decades and melting tundras will continue to release more methane into the atmosphere, worsening the world's condition.

I also agree that overpopulation, relative to decreasing ecological capacity, is the second greatest threat to humanity. This too has gone beyond the ability of society to readjust without catastrophic population loss. Even if all humans were educated on proper methods of maintaining their population while effectively feeding and clothing it, the strain on our remaining ecology would still be too great to allow the world to heal.

Finally, I think that more than wealth distribution, cultural differences are the last main threat to humanity. The drive over the last century towards identification with one's race and culture has seemingly only intensified in this century. Regional wars for cultural identity are ongoing and it would not be inconcievable that eventually these wars will spill over into truly global conflicts. Right now the Arab-Islamic culture seems to be the major instigator of conflicts, but that doesn't mean that other cultures don't conflict, and when they inevitably do blood will spill, and a global war between cultures is never far from the horizen, especially given the increasing power of the Chinese and Indian cultures vis-á-vis the European/American culture and the Russian culture.

Answer 4

I do not believe in the concept of "over consumption". As I am a proud free market capitalist, I know that the free market will resolve any such issues naturally. As to pollution, the very best soltuion to that is wealth. Only wealthy businesses and countries can afford to absorb the incredible weight of environmental regulations placed upon American businesses. Which is fine as long as the intention is actually the benefit of the environment as opposed to the destruction of capitalism on a global scale. I think the jury is very much still out on that question though I am leaning in the direction that most of the ecology radicals out there are closet communists and socialist and are just part of the socialist process to bring the world under its control.

Overpopulation. Hmmm. I don't have too much of an opinion on that one. The main reason is that I am very happy to be alive and I don't much like the idea that someone that lived before me took action that resulted in me not being able to come to the party. Outlandish as it may sound, I think the primary direction our "overpopulation" solutions should be directed is to move off this planet and pioneer "space, the final fronteer". Other than than trying to educate people in how to to be "less fertile" is a stop gap measure that simply won't work. After all one of the best ways to "take over" territory is to simply out breed the competition. Like the birth rates of muslims and europeans...check it out, the muslims are going to own europe before too long. Same here in America with the criminal illegal aliens from south of the border. Much higher birthrates in the illegal community than the "average" American family.

Which brings us to the wonderful United Nations and their "brand new" (at least this decade) wealth re-distribution program of taxing those in the world that do produce in order to give it to those in the world that don't produce. Hmmmm, let me think about that one for a minuite........Nope, I don't think that will do much to motivate anyone in the world to become real producers and when everyone is sucking from the UN teat to get handouts, and no one is left that actually produces anything of value, well I think that "weaning time" is going to be VERY painful.

You think that the producers of the world will always be stupid enough to tolerate the suckers of the world to steal what they have created? Why? Keep up that mentality and apply a little reason to the problem and you will see that as more and more are taking....less and less are producing. OK, here is a smple math problem for the sake of illistration. You have 100 people in a village. 50 of them are producers (they grow, make, hunt etc to produce) and 50 of them are consumers of what the other 50 produce. OK? Got that? Now, this scenario may take awhile to happen in a tribe of a hundred but bear with me a minute. After 5 years of hard work, one of the producers gets tired of having the non producers take what he produces and does nothing for it. So he decides to quit and become a sucker to...after all it takes less work and you get the same benefits right? So now we have only 49 consuming what they produce while you have 51 consuming what they have NOT produced. Give it another 15 years and we see that another 39 producers have grown tired of the increased burden of providing the "neeeeeddssss" of the "leeessss fooorrrrtuuuunate" and have become suckers also. New count? You have only 10 percent of the whole population consuming what they have produced and 90 percent that consume what they have not produced, albeit much less since 10 percent can't produce as much as 90 percent can consume. Get the picture? Yaaaahh I know, this is a very simple example and you guys think that out of all the babies born you are counting on it that some of them will be producers. But eventually, the result will be the same. Eventually, the producers will just quit, move to timbuctoo and take care of themselves and to hell with anyone else that won't produce themselves.

What are the three biggest threats to the human species?

YOU and your two best friends!!!!

Answer 5

1- The UN
2- Hillary Clinton
3- Nancy Pelosi

Answer 6

America.

Answer 7

Pride. Greed. Hate. All three are the driving factors in most of the worlds problems

Answer 8

1. Socialism.

Answer 9

#1 Itself.

Answer 10

the answer is greed,whic is found most in usa,greed for oil,for money,for weapons,...usa is actually the mother of greed which leads to baby greed in other counteries...