And how can we help to stop them from getting worse? Have you seen a movie "Children of Men"?
2007-04-02 10:36:32 · 9 answers · asked by Jen 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
And that remind me about that movie "Water World". Have you seen it? That could happen to us if we don't do something about it but how?
2007-04-02 11:12:42 · update #1
Well, since "climate change" is beyond the control of humans, there is no telling what will happen to us in the future. Actually there is no way of telling what will happen to us anyway, we could all be exterminated from an asteroid colliding with Earth next week.
2007-04-02 10:41:06 · answer #1 · answered by Wiz 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Now before I explain this, remember that this will take several thousand years or more to happen.
The ice caps will melt, which will make for less land mass to live on. The population will keep on growing, which will mean even less land mass. We will continue to drive internal combustion engines to the brink of loosing all of our breathable air, before we stop driving them. With the oxygen diminishing people will begin to get sick from the pollution. The smog will choke off the sunlight and all the vegetation will die, including the food, and while all of this is happening the water in the lakes and rivers is evaporating and the whole planet will begin to dry up until it's nothing but a dust ball and we all either die of hunger or from lack of water.
Now remember that this is a worst case scenario and this is what could happen if we don't do something about the global warming and even if this was to happen, it won't be for a very long, long time. Another thing to think about is that in about 300,000,000,000 years the Earth will burn to a cinder in the sun and it won't matter, because the human race won't exist anyway according to the Bible.
2007-04-02 17:59:23 · answer #2 · answered by golden rider 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have never seen that movie. The powers of the Earth and it's climate are entirely too powerful for us to "do anything." There were major climate shifts before we came along, and there will be many more after the Earth decides to kill us off (or we kill each other off).
So in the future there will be an ice age. And then, it will warm up again. And then later on, I'm sure there will be another ice age. The land will change, the climate will change, and it will all happen despite what we (insignificant animals) do.
2007-04-02 17:41:07 · answer #3 · answered by smellyfoot ™ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are going to be living in cities on top of water or underground cities in oceans........I am serious..........experiements have been going on for years to grow food in water......hmmmm....makes you wonder if the government had any preclusion to the Earth's deterioting state.........Oh well by 2050 the ocean is heading inland...so we all just move inward to places like the Rocky Mountains
California is going to slip right into the ocean from what I have heard and don't even get me started on Florida and the States that surround the Gulf of Mexico. Also If any of those Big huge rocks on the cliffs off the Canary Islands fall into the ocean all those that live on the Eastern Seaboards of the Aemricas will be doomed--A giant Tsunami would destroy everything! Sorry for being pessimistic--wasn't my aim--but really we are destroying the Earth and the Earth is letting us know big time that it isn't having it at all!
2007-04-02 17:45:29 · answer #4 · answered by Gerry 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If we do not change our ways we are going to be under water.
The permafrost of the polar ice caps have begun to melt and are irreversible. That permafrost holds a pocket of methane, one of the gases that creates warming. As things melt we will lose more and more land mass. The world as we know it will be very different.
I guess I'm a pessimistic when it comes to stopping warming because I don't think we will ever improve the situation. We all love our fossil fuels, cars and other modern devises too much to give them up. The government is stalling when it comes to backing alternative fuel sources and it costs to much for the average Joe to use them now anyway.
I did see Children of Men and enjoyed it but I don't see our future coming to that. We are improving our water and ground pollution situation and I would think they would be responsible for would sterility.
2007-04-02 17:46:21 · answer #5 · answered by me_172001 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We will EVOLVE to fit our environment. Those more suited to colder climes will die off slowly, while those more tolerant to heat will thrive. Some of our race may become completely dependent upon temperature-control and wind up living in artificially cooled areas underneath the Earth's crust. Maybe we will become subterranean. Anything can happen. You realize it was much hotter when the dinosaurs were around, right? And everything circles back around? Life goes on.
2007-04-02 17:41:26 · answer #6 · answered by gilgamesh 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
You know what? People have been worrying about the "end" forever. Give it a rest and just go about your life and do good where you can. That's what it's all about. Godloveya.
2007-04-02 17:40:02 · answer #7 · answered by Sassy OLD Broad 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The polar icecap is going to melt and we will all float on down to Florida... I hope it is after I retire.
2007-04-02 17:41:01 · answer #8 · answered by cerebrlgrl 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Our children's children will n ot have a very habitibal place to live if we don;t do something now.
2007-04-02 17:40:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋