So why are we humans considering that there will be an end of the wold?

Question

You wanna tell me that a bunch of idiots will cause the destruction of a planet that exist since 4 billion years, is that even possible?

Answer 1

because everything in our experience has had a beginning and an end. so the earth must have an end somethime. and yes, we can **** over a planet in several hundred years because we've been doing more damage in our relitively short existance than anything else did in the other 4 billion years of its existance.

Answer 2

predicting the apacolypse has been going on since Nero was throwing Christians to the lions, every turn of the Century, every end of the millenia, the 7th Day Adventists had their day in 1912, the Jim Jones cult and wacko in Waco both had their days, every passing of Haley's comet, eclipse of the sun and other end-of earth prophesies that i'm sure i missed. One thing you can be sure of, the arsenals of the US and Russia can obliterate a million Hiroshimas.

It could be 28 minutes from now or 280 years from now. When the superpowers square off against each other in two camps, then come back and we'll talk apacolpse.

Until then, just think regional conflicts, wars between rump states, proxy wars and brinksmanship. If you recall the Yom Kippur War in 1973, a coalition of Arab States (Egypt, Syria and Jordan) were soundly defeated by the Israelis. That was a worse situation than the current conflict and it didn't raise a blip on the world war radar (not that it didn't have the potential to spark a global war).

The next World War will involve a nuclear exchange, how could it not. In the first 30 minutes, nearly a billion people will have been vaporised, mostly in the US, Russia, Europe, China and Japan. Another 1.5 billion will die shortly thereafter from radiation poisoning. The northern hemisphere will be plunged into prolonged agony and barbarity.

Eventually the nuclear winter will spread to the southern hemisphere and all plant life will die. You ask when is the apacolypse, you are asking when will we commit global suicide. My answer is it won't happen soon because the larger superpowers are more rational than the rump states in the middle east.

Our biggest risk is an accidental launch of nukes by one of the nuclear powers.

Answer 3

Destruction of a planet may not occur due to the actions of the "bunch of idiots" that inhabit it. It is quite possible for human being to make the planet so polluted that it will not be able to support our life forms. The roaches won't mind!

The "end of the world" is being considered by so many people because recent events remind us that we are all mortal. If not through pollution there is always the destruction of this "world" through warfare. WE human beings seem to like killing each other despite all of the religions of this world warning us of the consequence.

Come to think of it even the physical world, i.e. Earth, our planet, may not be entirely safe from Homo Sapien destruction. Why do you suppose that WE are trying to curtail the proliferation of nuclear capabilities?

Build a big enough bomb, set it off a enough miles underground in the right area (oil rich strata), it would be theoretically possible to knock ourselves out of our stable orbit around the Sun. The Earth may be billions of years old, but it is mortal too.

Answer 4

This is an easy question. The answer is because humans are the first species on the planet that holds the power to destroy the planet.

But I have to say that your assumption is incorrect. You seem to think that the planet hasn't been destroyed before. That is incorrect, it has, many times over. Specifically I'm referring to the great bombardment. The last time the planet was destroyed was the meteor/asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. While that event didn't destroy all life, it destroyed the planet in a manner consistent with the nuclear warheads availble to many contries today.

In conclusion, while the planet has been destroyed in the past, many times over by natural phenoma, for the first time in history a species on the planet has that ability and is likely to use that power.

Answer 5

Question 1: What does the end of the world have to do with why we are humans? That is like asking "Why is my turkey sandwich yummy if there are oak trees in my yard?" No relation between the two things.

Question 2: You betcha it is possible! Now, this does not mean that the earth itself is destroyed and sent into the sun in a fiery explosion necessarily, but it DOES mean that all life CAN be wiped out. That said, this is NOT a predetermined fact. A "bunch of idiots" CAN do it, but that does not necessarily mean they WILL. At our current rate, though, it doesn't look good for life on earth.

Answer 6

Anything is possible, ask the Dinosaurs. The world may not actually be destroyed, but we may cease to exist on it, which amounts to the same thing for us. There is a doomsday clock ticking away in New York City and you may be surprised how close to Midnight that thing actually is. Everyone thinks they are more or less immortal for awhile and then they wake up to the fact that everything has a beginning, a middle and an end. It is not inconceivable that our planet has the same!

Answer 7

I suppose that's why people say 'the end of the world' instead of 'the end of the planet'.

You're right: the PLANET will be just fine. It is even beyond our ability to extinguish all LIFE... some of it is practically isolated in oceanic trenches under miles of water, or among porous rocks under miles of earth.

But a 'world' is smaller than a planet. After all, Caesar conquered his world, and it wasn't even close the the entirety of the planet. For some people, just one block or island is all the world they have... and for a few, even less.

So worlds end all the time. So far, people just keep rolling on... what worries people is the one world that we WON'T be able to escape from before it collapses. So it goes.

Answer 8

The planet will happily go on without us. There have been mass extinctions before. What people are worried about is the planet's climate and ecosystem getting messed up enough so that we experience a lot of droughts, famines, natural disasters and such, which will lead to wars and chaos. We're worried about the human existence on the planet, not the mass of molten metal itself.

Answer 9

Yes, the 'end' IS coming!

The Bible speaks and gives prophecy exact as is happening Right Now! You can read your local paper in one hand and The Bible in the other hand and SEE the SAME thing!

To me, as a Christian - It is Exciting! In case I have 'peeked' your curiosity - it is in Matthew 24 - Very plainly explained!

Even with what happened April 16, 2007 in Virginia and Virginia Tech! Everything is happening - Prophecy Is Coming True!

Take Care and God Bless!

Answer 10

The bible speaks of the end. If you have no faith in God, then the end of our planet is meaningless. In short, we are not going to cause the end, it's in God's time!