what's greatest threat for the world's existence (besides global warming)? why and how do you handle that?

Answer 1

Greatest threat:
People who make up human induced global warming lies to promote fear propaganda and manipulate the uneducated, the gullible and the mental midgets for political benefit. Lie fabrication and promotion by crooked politicians, royaly, dictators, religious clergies and communist regimes to the general public is the greatest threat to the stability and safety of our planet today.

Solution:
Get educated, think for yourself and ignore the lefty Socialist fearmongers. Look at lefty's voting record in the Senate and see if they are really on your side. Escape with Neo from the make believe world of the "Matrix"...

MARS IS MELTING. WHY?

Look at the link that I posted to NASA and read their report about the polar ice caps on MARS that are rapidly melting.

Did humans driving SUVs cause recent rapid polar ice melting on Mars. Hello! Where is Al Gore now?

If you noticed, I posted links to valid sites like NASA, and the US Senate website, and Wikipedia.org.

I haven't seen any global warming fearmongers giving valid sources for their fantastic claims. Where are your sources? Al Gore? Al Gore isn"t even a scientist.

If you hate education, hate knowledge and generally hate the truth, just mark a thumb down on the guy that post the truth along with valid sources to back it up. Don't even read the legitimate sources, because it might cause you to realize the truth. Keep living enslaved in the "Matrix" because you want to believe a lie fabricated by the political left.

Answer 2

Global warming and climate change threaten the existence of life on earth, including humanity, and in the shorter term civilization as we know it (if one could call it that). But perhaps the greatest immediate threat to humanity is population growth - doubling in few decades, and globally aspiring to unsustainable consumption on the Western model! The greatest threat to the world itself is ultimately the sun, and in the meantime the risk of collision with a comet or other body in space. We don't know all the potential threats, though a watch is now being kept for them. We've also no idea how to handle any of the potential threats, though people are working on that too. The early idea of zapping an approaching body with a nuclear bomb (in the Grand American Manner) is not much favored due to unpredictable effects from shattered debris (shades of Iraq?). Now there's more favor for developing a controllable rocket to "nudge" whatever threatens us into a different, non-collision, orbit. But it's all a bit speculative still, because so much depends on the nature of the event and of the threat itself. So I handle it by ignoring what I cannot affect - and focusing on trying to get more sensible action on the immediate dire threats of climate change. The stupidity and avoidance on that issue doesn't encourage optimism for human capacity to handle anything at all in a timely and sensible way - especially if handling it discomforts the beneficiaries of the status quo!

Answer 3

Do you mean the World as a planet or the animals and plants on the surface of the World?? The greatest threat to the world would undoubtedly be a very large planet-sized rocky meteor hitting it! Odds are very small, and unlikely we could do anything about it even if we did see it coming (and for all the observations on Near Earth Objects which might slam into the planet, most of these programs operate in the northern hemisphere only, so the 'bolt out of the blue' could still slam into the southern hemisphere and wreck the planet..). And don't even begin to get me going on the success rate of sending a bunch of American oil drillers into space to drill several miles into the centre of an iron meteor in a few days... :-)

If you mean what threatens life on the surface of the planet as we know it today? Then I would agree with everyone else - the over population of the human species. It is unlikely we will exterminate all life on this planet, but we'll certainly make it far more...bland (think grass pastures and cows, with the odd dog, cat or bird and only pine forests...) as everything is devoted to feeding the massive overpopulation of humanity.

The western world seems to have stumbled on a good thing with regards to population control - equal education and equal opportunities (...) for everyone and most importantly WOMEN! The more educated people are, the less likely they are to breed - deliberately or accidentally. But it will take well over a century to bring the current population explosion under control even if everyone was suddenly educated. China began its controversial "One child' policy in the 1970s, but doesn't think it will achieve negative population growth until the 2030s because of the huge numbers of Chinese! And they are only 1/6th of the world's population...

But when the human population begins to decline (and it will have to eventually, whether 'we' get tough or Mother Nature by being unable to provide anymore resources), the natural diversity of the planet will return into the areas we relinquish - as it has done in eons past under far more devastating circumstances (think: meteor impacts driving sudden global extinctions!)

Answer 4

I have some news for you, global warming isn't the greatest threat for the Earth's existence. The typical temperature of the Earth is warmer than it is right now and this little episode of Global Cooling hasn't hurt life on it. Human life may suffer, but then since humans are causing the end of this little period (1.6 million years) of cold then it would be fitting that humans suffered from human actions.

Answer 5

Issoasfc is correct: OVERPOPULATION is the catalyst to all the other problems on the planet. Too many unwanted children. Too many poor people with millions of kids that others have to support or do not support. The planet has limited resources.

Free birth control and sterilization to women and men in 2nd and 3rd world countries. Also award them with cash if they do this procedure after having 1 child only. The only child will get the best care since the parent's time, money, resources, food, etc. will not be divided among ten other kids.

Answer 6

Man(and women; because I wouldn't want to hear anything about being sexist and not giving credit where credit is due)kind
They are like a parasite that feeds off one another and the planets resources and then, once the necessary substances, information, life forces are sucked dry, they move on to putrefy another place or people.
The solution is obvious. What would you do for a roach or rodent problem?

Answer 7

LMBO mankind is the greatest threat !
How DO we handle that?!
Make people wake up i guess.

Answer 8

war of course. it kills people every minute in the world. modern weapons are powerful enough to destroy the world part by part.

Answer 9

Population...Because of limited Resources.....Dont worry USA has already started working on it by BOMBING Asian countries.