is the human race destined to fail?

Question

when the worlds economy collapses and we have used up all the worlds natural resources, all the nations are at war, are we destines to return to the dark ages?
will we all live in mud huts and have to walk everywhere?

will we revert to wearing grass skirts and fishinf with our hands?
will the answer still be its not fault, i needed that holiday in the seychelles, i needed my 6litre BMW 4x4 (its very hilly in essex), i needed a tv, dvd player etc in every room in my house?

gray, your such a cynic, and the english is perfect if you read from a 3rd person perspective.

Answer 1

you are right. the consumer cancer will finish us if we dont start to see it for the monster it is!! very soon. the trouble is we seem to have come to the point where we judge outhers by the material that they own. being a slave to consumerism is suicidal.

Answer 2

It depends how you measure failure.
What activities do you personally engage in that do not consume resources, use energy, produce pollution (directly or in their manufacture and distribution), or convert some earth resource into a on-recyclable form? Can you think of ANY? I would be surprised. So, you pollute. Welcome to the human race. But, since you are concerned about it, what are YOU going to give up? Seriously think about it. Without meaning anything insulting by it, I bet the answer amounts to nothing but tinkering and there is a good reason for that. You are stuck where you are like the rest of us. We cannot go back to living in caves or mud huts and being hunter gatherers (about the only eco-balanced lifestyle possible) because:
1. there is not enough fertile land to support that lifestyle;
2. there are too many people;
3. there is not enough wildlife and not enough berries to eat;
4. It's OK, I won't carry on because you get the drift.
The point I'm trying to make is that there is no way back and, if there were, it would have to be a way back to a lifestyle you characterise as 'failure'. There is no other obvious way to live that does not progress steadily towards the consumption of earth's resources. We CAN extend the time scale which is, perhaps, the idea behind your question.
I see no reason to think the human race will fail (as in 'cease to exist') but we might exist differently from the way we do now. What if we did cease to exist? Would that be so bad? Wouldn't the prospect make all the environmentalists and animal rights protagonists happy? We can't have it both ways.

Answer 3

nicely so some distance as there being a "element to human existence", we are each and each on our personal as to if we chosen a intending to all this or no longer. yet with regards to if the human race is destined to fail, in a real clinical way we are destined to fail; it really is evolution. A small handful human beings will live to tell the tale, even as the final public human beings will fail to bypass on our genetics to destiny generations. yet how or maybe as this mass die off takes position isn't sparkling, and that i honestly gained't prescribe to the populists interpretations of the e book of Revelations. i have self belief that this is available that if sufficient have self belief it to be genuine, it would want to be manifested by ability of perception on my own. we may be causing the end of the international basically by ability of believing this is coming. Many American Christians accessible imagine this is alright to pollute and wreck the ecosystem because the "end circumstances" are upon us and this stuff will be destroyed besides. i'm very disturbed by ability of this interpretation of the Bible. this is in basic terms an interpretation. we want to have wish now. Act for day after today. do not waste. guard the more youthful. stay genitally with the Earth. this is the message that could want to be shared.

Answer 4

Whoah! Dial the doom down a notch or two! Barring a catastrophic event that would be able to truly effect the entire world (nuclear war, a huge meteorite striking the Earth, a "supervirus" or something else of that magnitude) then it's not going to become like a Mad Max movie.
Can things get much worse before everyone makes conservation and alternative energies, etc a priority? I'd have to say yes, it is likely. But will it get to the tragic de-evolution of our society that you describe? No it won't.
Now go do something nice with your sweetheart like planting a tree to make yourself feel better!

NOTE: If it does happen it'll be nice to see KatScratch in a grass skirt!

Answer 5

When all the world's resources are used up there won't be anything to eat and every type of life on earth will end so you won't have to worry about fishing with your hands, all the fish will be gone. It is not clear what kind of contest you think "the human race" is currently engaged in where there is the possibility of failure or success. Certainly humans, as well as other animals, will see varying levels of living standards in the coming years as has happened in the past.

Answer 6

ofcourse it is.. but not in the way you described.. i dont think man would have to wear grass skirts and stuff.. all i know is that for all these years weve lived, mankind has slowly destroying balance... sooner or later, the destruction weve caused this world would backfire on us..all boats would sink, all planes would crash, everybody will go to war and global warming will be revealed to be the worst thing that weve caused earth.... juz hope id be gone by then...lol..

Answer 7

I have my doubts. There is no evidence of going backwards. The genie is out of the bottle, so there we will not abandon our modern ways. Japan may have lost a lot during the dropping of the atomic bombs, but they managed to rebuild their cities. Humans have an amazing ability to adapt and survive.

Answer 8

I didn't understand those last two lines because you forgot your English skills apparently.

Will it revert to that? Perhaps, but not too likely. We might just develop ingenuity, oh wait, we already have that. Looks like most of us would know how to recycle materials. It'd suck to be you fishing with your bare hands.

Answer 9

You'd love "Ishmael" by Daniel Quin. It's about exactly that, mankind's drive to eliminate all life on earth except its own, and what it feeds on.

Answer 10

Yes... we are failing and it will only get worse. I think we will all kill eachother off way before we get to the grass skirt stage, though. lol