Can mankind continue at our current lifestyles?

Answer 1

No. We need in the US to start living smartly. We don't all have to live like peasants or the Chinese or Indians with substandard government and housing and public services either.

Look no further than Germany.

There's a great little metric which is a couple of years old now. It says how many Earths' does it take to support our lifestyle or rather how many of "X" country could the Earth support.

Usually it's like this ,
The Earth can support 3 something like 3 Chinas'.
The Earth can support 4 USA's.
The Earth can support 85 Germanys'

Germany has more than 1/3 the population of the US, but they are MUCH more efficient, so consequently, if everyone lived more like the Germans, we'd be in pretty good shape.

Answer 2

My biggest concern is the breakdown of the nuclear family, meaning a married mother and father who raise a family. I think one of the biggest problems we face today is people placing more value on themselves and what they want instead of what's really good for them and good for society. There are a lot more single parents, and fewer people are getting married, which just means there are less stable family situations all around. From what I read, the divorce rate is high, but has actually been slowly declining in percentage since 1979, even though the actual number of divorces nationwide are increasing. This just means that more people who get married are sticking together, which is encouraging. When people grow up in unstable families, they tend to have more social problems, and without a positive example of a family to go upon, they continue the cycle and wind up causing more broken homes when they grow up. The scariest thought is that we as a society are forgetting how to raise a healthy, stable family and teaching our children to do the same.

Answer 3

This question goes past my sociology background and has to go into my Christian Prespective. As a Christian we know that times are getting worse and that is the prophecy. The end times is near and it will come on us like labor pains. At first it will be mild and then go into full fledge chaos. Like a birth, much pain getting there but eventually it turns to joy. Just as the time we emerge into heaven.

Sociologically, I feel we are also going toward self-destruction. What we are doing to our environment, the breakdown of our familes and just our total disregard for many things we used to take pride in. We have been given so much and we just keep going and going with it until eventually we realize that we went to far.

Answer 4

Perhaps all the wars have been the inability to adjust to the new lifestyles and the natural demand to adjust to the new realities. But man did continue although some ravaging reality tore his existence up to the point of extinction.

Answer 5

Not any longer. I believe we’ve arrived at a critical juncture and soon we’re all going to face the severe consequences of our decisions and actions.

Answer 6

Hi, our current lifestyles itself origin from mankind. This is we say ''civilazation'... and so what you want more about that...

Answer 7

Not at the current rate of reproduction and delusions of grandeur.

Answer 8

we need to trade nukes and see who has the bigger bang i swear i think ive heard the dumbest people talking and then whamo a new dumber day arises and im suprised all over again help stop the earth let me get off thanks

Answer 9

at the rate of how this world is going i dont think so. we have less time than we think on this world and it's our fault.
so make the most of ur life

Answer 10

Not forever. But the dinosauers didn't make it either.