how long do you think humans will survive?

Question

with all the global warming and runing out of our rescourses how long do you think human will survive?

Answer 1

Tuesday.

Answer 2

A good thing about humans is that we're resourceful, intelligent and adaptable.

Even if the world warmed in line with the worst case scenarios it would, for many, be little more than an inconvenience. In America and Europe many of the effects would go un-noticed as we're prtotected from them and can mitigate against them.

Historically there has always been a maximum temperature that the planet has reached before a climate trigger is switched and the planet begins to cool. The trigger is approx 35°C, current temps (global average) are just under 15°C. There's a long way to go before the Earth switches to cooling mode and if the planet did get this hot then half of it would become uninhabitable and the remainder would have an equatorial climate - hot but surviveable.

Answer 3

Believe it or not, there is plenty of oil. We are just not allowed to get it.

Africa is an oil rich nation. But it has to remain poor since that oil is not to be touched.

There is an entire extra level of oil in the oceans that we are not able to use.

If these oil reserves were tapped into, oil prices will go down tremendously. Just imagine cheap energy? We could solve all are great problems with lots of energy. We could make sanitation and sewage systems in the third world, develop countries, feed the world's population, solve all our problems! We could even have the ability to develop alternative energy and ween ourselves off all fossil fuels for real! Cheap Energy will make all this possible and more.

Instead, the media is spreading rumors of peak oil once again.

Every time peak oil enters the news, somebody is making money on energy stock. That news item (like so many news items) are really there because someone paid a PR firm to get it in all the news wires so that he could manipulate the stock market. I wouldn't be surprised if the climate news is now used in the same way, thanks to the widespread belief in global warming.

I've seen this all personally as I was in the PR business for many years.

Today we have unlimited resources. Economics is redefined. Information is a resource and we can always make new information because the capabilities of the human mind is limitless.

You will find that most of the world's problems have to do with the belief in limited resources. All the problems of the world are because everyone is fighting for diminishing resources.

It is a head trip that politicians pull on people to control them.

Answer 4

First of all, oil is not a renewable resource. The more we use, the less there is to drill. Burning natural resources creates carbon pollution that the UN says causes global warming. Second, it is a foregone conclusion that we will use renewable and clean energy in the future. The question is, how to we make the transition? Once we manage to work our way through that debate, and the real change happens, we will live harmoniously on Earth until an asteroid the size of Texas crashes into the Earth. That is, of course unless NASA launches some space shuttles to the asteroid, and Bruce Willis drills a big hole and he blows in half with a huge nuclear bomb leaving us here safe on Earth. That is until the Aliens get here and Will Smith the guy from Jurassic Park has fly into the mother ship with the UFO we fixed in Area 51 and we implant a virus into their computer, blow up the ship, and take out all of the city destroying UFOs that want to take us out. And if all that succeeds as planned, we will live in harmony here for billions of years until the Sun explodes, incinerating Earth, and destroying all mankind. That is unless we colonize the universe first, and we save humanity from the Covenant with the Master Chief and Cortana. Then we will survive until the universe ends, or God finally realizes we are a lost cause, because we destroy everything we touch.

Answer 5

Maybe about 8 more years. Maybe.....

Al Gore gave us approx. 10 years to "turn it around".
Wake up folks. It is already too late. If every human being on earth vanished this very second the domino effect of what we have already done as far as upsetting the delicate balance of our planet has been out of control for at least the last 1000 years and really snow balled in the last 100 years.

Mankind constantly kills and wipes out animal and plant life without thought, for more than just for food, clothing but also selfishly for fun and games.

Humans dump pollution into the very water and air that keep us alive, burns and destroys the land that grows our food, pours chemical poison into our crops/injects them into our livestock and wages war to kill our very own kind.

We have wrecked havoc and destroyed the natural resources on our one and only planet and scientist all over the world KNOW it is irreverseable, non-stopable and inevitable. (sorry for the misspelling), our planet is DYING FAST! VERY MUCH FASTER than even predicted!

There are far too many ignorant, greedy, powerful, wealthy and poor human beings and nations that really never have and never will give a damn. That is why we are are doomed as a species. So get use to the heat, the starvation, the suffering and death.

WE are an endangered species.

Oil? Give me a break...... Ha! Water.... that is what all the fighting will be about very, very soon.

The Coca cola company and Pepsi are buying all the water rights all over the world.

And I bet you anything, CHINA or Saudi Arabia will or has bought those companies.

Answer 6

An estimated temp rise of a couple degrees in a century and you're ready to be extinct. Gimme a break dude. Have you ever considered that the estimated temperature rise is LESS than the margin of error for such an estimate? In plain English that means it's statistical noise.

Now go get a life.

Answer 7

Let's accept the argument that global warming is real (remember, that many will argue that it's not). Man will potentially live until the next asteroid hits. Not all humans would go extinct, even under the worst case GW scenario.

Answer 8

I think that the human race will destroy itself long before the so called global warming and our natural resources have run out. I would say we will last about another 500 years. At least I will not be around for anyone to tell me I was wrong.lol

Answer 9

How come everyone is only worried about themselves here? What about the animals, what about this beautiful earth that we are taking advantage of?! We should all want to protect this environment and the Earth and everything on it. We should be so happy and grateful it is so beautiful here. We have become money-loving ungrateful depressed slobs. We are fat and full of hate and anger. What is money anyway? It's made from trees. When we cut them all down anyway, there will be no more money left to make! That won't happen but I'm just saying ;). Well I'm way off topic but I feel better now. :) I don't know how long we will live. Who cares? Our race sucks right now.

Answer 10

This is an interesting question, and many thoughtful answers were mixed in so far with the flippant ones and the ones of those who have succumbed to the doomsayers who make money off such.

History tells us that the Earth has passed through many such cycles, and life has not been extinguished, but improved..

Recent history tells us that times of global warming were times of prosperity, with expansion, room to move around, prosperous farms, explorations, and times of great art being created.

Far from what the "popular" films say.

But what good is the truth of History when we have such good terror films to show even to our little kiddies?

One failing right now is so few people look at history, and ask why it was good then when the globe was highly warmed, and why NOW we are told just the opposite will happen. Based on a computer model that cannot even accept recent history without giving obviously wrong answers.

The adage is true...those who cannot learn from History are condemned to repeat it. In this case, if we do not accept the bounties Nature holds out to us again as in past history, we will be condemned to have die-offs, wars, poverty, lack of the medicines (destroyed in the rape of the jungles), government watchdogs, all our worst nightmares.

This will be because we are willingly blinded to what is offered, preferring to shut our eyes and ears and listen to the prophets of doom who want to control our lives, Ala "1984." And we may not long survive if so.

Contrary to what is bandied around, we have tremendous resources, but are not allowed to use them, so a limited number of people can prey on our pocketbooks crying "scarcity" in the middle of plenty. Or for political revenge later on.

Where I live, there is KNOWN oil for 300 years, already drilled, and tested, and then sealed for political and economic purposes best known to those government people who are doing it and denying us the benefits. Russia has taken claims to a huge reported oilfield under the Arctic ice! They are not hesitating!!

We clutch our oils to our chest to save until later, and they will sell to the world while our hoarded resources diminish in value!

But unless we are foolish enough to go into a massive nuclear war, or do something else major stupid, like we are trying to in bulldozing the rainforests to grow carbon credits, we will make it.

Though by using carbon credits to hold down the underdeveloped areas we are setting the stage for really bad wars! Read History, for the results of this policy...even if it IS UN sanctioned!!

IF we follow the knowledge of the past, and throw the rascals, even those in the UN, out, and move with nature, I think we will all live out 4-score and 10 years well. In a cultured peace and prosperity. And our children can build on our successes, rather then huddling in poverty and oppression,

If we listen to the fearmongers, even the UN ones, and let ourselves be squished down and kept in ignorance and poverty, dunno; man does not survive well under such conditions.

Now, also in answer to your question, I keep hearing that astronomers are tracking asteroids that could likely collide with the Earth in 20-30 years.

Since we refuse to use our assets to get into space with appreciable population, and to prepare for an asteroid to be heading our way far enough ahead of time to deflect it, we could be wiped clean off the Earth and out of the Universe in 20-30 years, regardless of what we do in re "Global Warming" right now. Hit by an asteroid, the globe will get really hot, then really really cold, really quickly!!

So. pessimistically, killed off by an asteroid we could have deflected, 20 more years maybe. Killed by the crushing of the human spirit, maybe 200-500 years. If we believe various religious scenarios, which become seemingly more probable as things are going now, we will provoke God too far and be destroyed divinely!

But if we do it right, work with nature and each other and prosper, and learn more about how our Earth works, I think we have a long and happy future ahead...as long as we remember History and not to make the same mistakes as in the past and such as we are trying hard to make now.

Answer 11

We will survive global warming and running out of resources. Those problems are just not deadly; only inconvenient. There is no telling how long after that we will last, but it will be a long time.