Will Mankind Survive the 21st Century?

Originally posted by MidnightDStroyer


Certainly, the natural balance of the Earth's eco-system may be thrown a bit out of whack from human interference, but as the ecology of life adapts to changes, the eco-system will eventually achieve balance once again...Maybe with some "new" minor differences than what we see today, but these differences will come about from the adaptations of life.


[edit on 29-8-2008 by MidnightDStroyer]

Great point!

Nature may not have mankind in it's new plan or eco system. When it does achieve balance we could have gone the way of the dinos.

Originally posted by counterterrorist
reply to post by SLAYER69

 

Will mankind survive the 21st Century?

No. Not on purpose.

Overcrowding is a myth. Ever been up in an airplane? There's empty land everywhere. People are forced into cities for cheap labor.

The food shortage is a shortage of brains. There are millions probably billions of acres that could be planted.

The energy shortage is a hoax, as well. There's enough energy reserves in America to last 2,000 years ... besides, if we take the hydrogen and oxygen out of water for fuel, we can really go to town.

Global warming is a hoax, as is well documented across ATS.

Well I wouldnt be so sure. Here is some more recent information that is coming to light.

Rajendra Pachauri told CNN's Principal Voices program that there is a limited window of opportunity to stabilize the earth's climate and avert the worst impacts of climate change, such as rising temperatures, melting polar icecaps and extreme weather events.

SOURCE


Just another sign of not pulling together.

Who can deny that we may go the way of the dinosaurs, If it happened once and can and will happen again.

It's just a matter of time.

Who can deny that we may go the way of the dinosaurs, If it happened once and can and will happen again.

It's just a matter of time.

Who can deny that we may go the way of the dinosaurs, If it happened once and can and will happen again.

It's just a matter of time.

Who can deny that we may go the way of the dinosaurs, If it happened once and can and will happen again.

It's just a matter of time.

I think the population will take a huge crash at some point although I think the problems going to be all the tinkering we have done with our food supply.

I think GM crops are a mistake but an even bigger problem is oil based pesticides we are at the stage were without them we just can't grow and oil will eventually run out it's likely only decades away.

Without oil we can't grow the food can't transport the food and can't package the food when oil dies things are going to get nasty and people will starve to death a lot of people.

Might be a solution in time I kind of doubt it though I'm sure a percentage of people will survive.

The overuse of Antibiotics might also get us the first easily spreadable bug that is completely immune to them and kills stands to decimate us but I guess there no point thinking about that we could just get hit by an asteroid first.

Thinking about all the possibles I'd probably give us as a species about an 80% chance for the next hundred years.

All these ills that bother mankind are those that either occurred in the past or are presently on the sh-t list. The huge reduction in population of Homo sapiens taking place between roughly 2030- 2070 will be caused by something that no one would even imagine could exist.

The problems facing humatity are for me

1) mind control, why would man want ultimate power over others, when he would not want himself to be treated like that.
2) greed, how we deal with this may define, this century.

Greed and power, what other problems do we face, that do not fit into this two words. Whether we make it to the next century, i am sure alot will not care, today with the apathy people have and the way we have been dumbed down, to be nothing but slaves. Everyone is not born equal, which is obvious, but people should be given a chance to at least have some sort of live that is not to hard, and have nice happy moments.

But in this world, especiallly the west they have created a system that makes everyone fighting with each other, whyyyyyyyy. Why did they have to push this way of life, so that people at the top could get richer, why can we not choose our own way.

I just feel like the world has not moved forward at all in the last 63 years since ww2 ended. AMerica dominated but did nothing to solve any of the real probelms you have talked about.

Just feel now that the world tried capitalism and communism, an dthese failed. the world is heading to national socialism, why didn't they just let germany win, if they where going to end up doing that stuff anyway.

Originally posted by Teknikal
I think the population will take a huge crash at some point although I think the problems going to be all the tinkering we have done with our food supply.

I think GM crops are a mistake but an even bigger problem is oil based pesticides we are at the stage were without them we just can't grow and oil will eventually run out it's likely only decades away.

Without oil we can't grow the food can't transport the food and can't package the food when oil dies things are going to get nasty and people will starve to death a lot of people.

Might be a solution in time I kind of doubt it though I'm sure a percentage of people will survive.

The overuse of Antibiotics might also get us the first easily spreadable bug that is completely immune to them and kills stands to decimate us but I guess there no point thinking about that we could just get hit by an asteroid first.

Thinking about all the possibles I'd probably give us as a species about an 80% chance for the next hundred years.

I agree most people tend to forget that transportation systems keep this world supplied and fed some dont realize just how quickly the food supply would run out without modern transportation or how quickly large population centers or even urban areas would starve if most nations infrastructure failed. mass starvattion the likes of which tthe world has never seened.

Originally posted by stander
All these ills that bother mankind are those that either occurred in the past or are presently on the sh-t list. The huge reduction in population of Homo sapiens taking place between roughly 2030- 2070 will be caused by something that no one would even imagine could exist.

How do we know that this is not the way mankind goes out?

Not with a bang but with a slow steady wimper

Originally posted by andy1033
The problems facing humatity are for me

1) mind control, why would man want ultimate power over others, when he would not want himself to be treated like that.
2) greed, how we deal with this may define, this century.

Andy1033

Great point! What really was the purpose of WWII if nothing has really improved?

You say the world has tried Capitalism and Communism and now we are headed for a global Socialist system. Why did we fight so hard to end it under Hitler? Well first off he and his band of merry men were not out to give the rest of the world the ideal version of socialism, Like anything they were after power and their own agenda of global domination under the umbrella of their perverted view of racial purity.

It does go a long way to demonstrate greed and the ever present underlying facts of human nature to
A. Want to control others and situations.
B. Man’s ignorant view of nature and himself.
c. His short sightedness on preparing for his future and the world he will leave to his offspring for generations to come.

Originally posted by andy1033


Greed and power, what other problems do we face, that do not fit into this two words. Whether we make it to the next century, i am sure alot will not care, today with the apathy people have and the way we have been dumbed down, to be nothing but slaves. Everyone is not born equal, which is obvious, but people should be given a chance to at least have some sort of live that is not to hard, and have nice happy moments.

But in this world, especiallly the west they have created a system that makes everyone fighting with each other, whyyyyyyyy. Why did they have to push this way of life, so that people at the top could get richer, why can we not choose our own way.


I just feel like the world has not moved forward at all in the last 63 years since ww2 ended. AMerica dominated but did nothing to solve any of the real probelms you have talked about.

Just feel now that the world tried capitalism and communism, an dthese failed. the world is heading to national socialism, why didn't they just let germany win, if they where going to end up doing that stuff anyway.

America has not truly tried to solve the worlds problems and why should we. Most tend to forget or either are simply not aware of the fact that most of Europe and Asia was in shambles post WWII and there was major reconstruction needed and the world economy needed a major shot in the arm.

Economically speaking the US had to flex it’s muscle to revive these markets and they have rebounded marvelously look at the financial situations presently in Asia and Europe, They have grown to the point were the US no longer seems or appears to them as anything special anymore but immediately post WWII we had almost all the eggs in one basket.

If anything the US has shown the world Mass production, Mass consumption and Mass pollution on a scale never before seen in mans history.

SORRY about the quadruple post my Internet connection was sporadic that day If an admin could please remove 3 of those it would be appreciated thanks in advance

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Just yet another sign of it all coming to an end.

With the recent market situation it's all coming to a head.

We seem to be headed towards the meltdown a lot quicker than anticipated.

World wide fuel crises this past summer will only return next year when China once again purchases more oil as they did this year.

We have an econmoic meltdown in progress and now the worlds food supply is being overwelmed by demand are you convinced yet?

Where is this world headed?

Armageddon... a catastrophic end?

How the earth WILL BE SAVED

In my opinion, over-population is centred around citys because of cheap labour, and any drop in population because of this is likely to be caused by out-breaks of disease in the citys and the countryside will be mostly unaffected, though as the citys are being more populated demand for food is increasing which means the farmers will have less food for themselves, which could result in starvation for even the wealthy countries. Despite all this I think our biggest threat is with nuclear weapons. With the missing soviet union nukes, it could mean that religious extremists could have procured them and may soon release an attack on the USA for example or Japan. I beleive that we have tipped the balance that nature had set-up long before humans existed and because of this it could mean the end of humanity and possibley the world.

Originally posted by SLAYER69
Recent examples of the end being near.

The Russians going into Georgia, Korea testing nuclear weapons, Iran thumbing its nose at the west, China becoming an economic rival to the US, Obama might win the white house.

All signs of the end nearing.

That has nothing to do with the end.

slayer stop being a pessimist. alot of things can happen. an asteroid can fall at any moment. our sun could blow up. a nuke can go off. or god decides hes done with his science project and throws us out. but it didnt happen yet. what you have to do is calm down and take it a day at a time.

modern man has survived for the last 7000 years or so (i could be completely off). survived war floods, disease, and earthquakes among other equally terrible things.

there is good left out there. don't be the one trying to point out the negative. be the first to start something positive.

There is plenty of evidence to suggest that mankind has been on this planet far longer, and in our present form, than contemporary mainstream science is willing to admit us or themselves. Taken in context of a long existing species, we will likely survive well into the far flung future as well, but what will not likely survive is our current civilization nor much of any means to remember it when we once again repopulate.

In all likelyhood, we will be witness to some very startling truths that come by way of events that will pretty much lay waste to modern existence. The few survivors will make an effort to pass these truths on so that they will not be forgotten again but, of course, they will... until the next rise of man meets the same fate.

If this is indeed a repeating cycle of rise and fall, we might actually be something of a crop that is seeded, grown and then harvested. Then after the Earth replentishes itself, the seeding will occur again for the next generation.

I don't think we will be allowed to totally destroy ourselves or our world. That would be contrary to whatever purpose life has for us. Instead, I would think more in terms of the farmer who plows the field under for the winter.