How many years before humans make earth uninhabitable and we all die slow painful deaths thinking about how?

Question

we should have done this or we could have done that?
It's going to happen, face the truth - we're like little bees just trained to go about our daily business, failing to see the big picture.

Answer 1

another couple of centuries of steady and we will be out
or possibly sooner

50 yrs we will run out of oil

but we will really have f'ed up the planet by then

and world population will be near 9 billion too
eating up all earths resources
polluting and paving the world over destroying ecosystems

were so gready
we will devour everthing without any care for the future affects of our actions


Tradgedy of the commons

Answer 2

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

It depends. If we continue on the path we're on now, it won't be very long at all. However, I believe that we still have a chance. If enough of us open our eyes, and decide to stop being 'little bees', we can change our path and create a society that lives in balance with the earth. Its a long shot, but it can happen.

Answer 4

sooner than everyone would like to think. the economy will go first, and then the governments. without government regulations (which aren't all that helpful anyhow), i give it a few years or so. if that doesn't happen soon, somebody will "accidentally" launch a nuclear missile, and the entire world will join in, causing universal radiation poisoning. and slow, painful, lonely deaths.

Answer 5

i'm not worried, it's far enough away so that we'll get a solution by that time or i'll be dead.

either way, i'm not concerned about it.

anything we can do now won't be THE solution anyways, we're not ready for the solution.

necessity is the mother of invention, after all.
we've been talking about the planet being uninhabitable "soon" for the better part of the last 300 years. we were supposed to have run out of oil and other natural resources 10 different times now...