IS it true that the earhts civilization will be forced to evacuate to other planets in the near future?

Answer 1

We might have made a mess of this one, but the others are worse.

Answer 2

In the near future? Impossible. There are no planets in the solar system that could feasibly house a self-sufficient colony. It would be like a neolithic European culture with only dugout canoes, attempting to colonize the americas.

Interstellar colonization is probably impossible because of the distances and energies involved. Right now the skill set that would be required to reach the stars would be considered magical.

Of course if we don't colonize the stars, we are risking our extinction because one good asteroid strike could kill all life on earth. And even without encountering a wandering asteroid or comet, Earths days are numbered.

Answer 3

No. At least, not in the short term, We can survive on Earth for centuries if we want to.

The fun starts in a few million years when plants use up all the Co2, the sun heats up and boils off the oceans, and plate tectonics stops (yes this will happen; the sun heats up slowly as it burns, so in aobut a billin years we will need to get out). We could buy extra time by moving the Earth (this is theoreticaly possible; we would use comets to pull it around gravitationally. but very hard).

But there won't be any need for it in our lifetime.

Answer 4

It will be a whole lot simpler and cheaper,to fix the problems here.Throw another billion years of pollution,whatever in the mix,the most habitable planet,by a long shot,is still Earth.Space will NEVER be feasible for population control,EVER,we would have to build,stock,and launch millions of large ships yearly simply to keep the population flat,much less reduce it.Say a full scale nuke war happened,what is the most habitable place in the solar system then?You guessed it,good old Earth.we may establish research colonies.We may even make hotels"out there" for tourists.What we won't do,is abandon Earth

Answer 5

If by near future you mean the next 4 billion years or so yes, otherwise no as long as we learn to live within the resources of the planet, stop poisoning our surroundings and stop breeding like rabbits.

In about 4 billion years the sun will run out of hydrogen and start to burn helium - it will actually get much cooler but also much bigger. And I mean much bigger. So big in fact that the Earth will get swallowed whole by the expanding sun. If we havnt left by then... its curtains.

Answer 6

What is most possible, is that we destroy the majority of our civilization through starvation, and overcrowding. We will lose our best minds, and stop being inventive enough to develop space travel. Eventually, we will resort to basic food gathering for survival. Without earth to supply colonies, and a means to get the supplies there, any colonies we might have had would be doomed. I say it is far easier to terraform the only planet we know of, capable of supporting humans -- Earth!

Answer 7

Not in the near future, because there is no planet discovered to offer the same conditions as Earth.

Answer 8

on my own opinion, I think it will not be more of evacuation, it will be more of extinction of the human civilization! the thing that we need in order to survive to other planets is for that planet to have an equal chemical make-up with the Earth, mainly, on its lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. so far none of the known planets resemble likeness on those aspect for maintaining lifeforms like here on our planet. so, as long as there be no other planets that will exist as a complete copy of our mother earth, we will not be able to move to other areas. many scientist tried already to imitate the process on how earth takes care of her lifeforms, but they did not succeed

Answer 9

Nope. Well, not in the near future! We have neither located any planets capable of supporting life, nor developed the technology to reach them! So it is just not an option, we need to turn our efforts to keeping this one habitable!

Answer 10

Hope its not in the near future as we haven't found another planet that's suitable and we haven't developed a space ship to carry anyone there.

Answer 11

Well, Stephen Hawking certainly seems to think that at some point we'd be heading in that direction - and that's good enough to me.

But we're almost certainly talking thousands of years into the future - so not something that you or I are likely to experience.