What will be our Future and Fate during our time and or beyond that? Will we become strong and intellectual beings, will we be creating wonders in technology and exploring the many aspects of the universe? Will we wage another war which society will crumble? Will a natural disaster consume all life on Earth? Or will Alien-Facehumping zombies eat our brains? I'd like to hear your opinions.
I believe everything goes extinct eventually. I mean how could it not? Look at civilizations, they rise and fall. Some bad decision always leads to downfall, so why not the same for entire species?
But we sure are gonna run out of fossil fuels! Hopefully we get some effective Solar cells going, and or at least some Insane Geothermal energy going. But wonder how society will react to lack of "fossil fuel"?..
There is no speed to it, it simply happens there is no standardized rate for it. Also now days the EPA and other environmental agencies have strict laws that regulate factories. In fact my estimate is that pollution was highest back in the 50s through 90s. Yet there was no effect back then, and there's no way for the effects to be hidden for so long.
im not saying there is a definite speed, im just saying that humans in general (not blaming any single country/group) are making it happen before it should.. and yes the EPA regulates factories etc. in the u.s and similar agencies in other countries, but not everywhere in the world has such strict guidelines.
Ever heard the saying "Every good thing comes to end" they weren't wrong, one day like every other species humanity will die out, whether that day will be in 2 years or in 2 billion years no one knows.
Eventually we will yes. However realistically there are enough fossil fuels right now to last us for thousands of years at our current rate of consumption.
However we don't drill in most of the places we can and the oil companies control the volume and make massive contributions to political campaigns and research to not only ensure that prices are where they are wanted, but that society continues it's dependence on fossil fuels.
However if we ran out right now we already have enough alternative ways to produce our electricity and to fuel our engines that it would really have little impact, other than everyone having to convert their engines or purchase new vehicles.
but your saying is that pplz above is that global warming is completely natural? yes, it does happen, but humanz have been accelerating its speed
We are not accelerating the speed of it at all. What we are doing is having minimal impact on our environment and blaming it on global warming in order to scare everyone and reinforce our dependence on government regulations.
Do you have any idea how much money the government and it's contractors make forcing business to convert their factories, and in fines and other monies required? The government makes money hand over fist off of it, and feed you stories like global warming to garner wide spread support.
However realistically there are enough fossil fuels right now to last us for thousands of years at our current rate of consumption.
I think you mean theoretically. Realistically the dramatically rising cost of ecological capital from increasingly aggressive drilling an incidents like the BP spill will render oil a non-viable resource within the next century. Furthermore with the increasing industrialisation of China and other countries to follow, "current rate of consumption" isn't even worth thinking about.
However if we ran out right now we already have enough alternative ways to produce our electricity and to fuel our engines that it would really have little impact
We don't have the infrastructure to make a conversion like that. It takes more than a couple of years to develop!
We have enough food in the world to feed everyone in the world for several thousands of years. The problem is, we waste it, and politics. Wars and poverty and all that stuff make it difficult to feed third world countries. So we won't die of starvation.
Global warming might cause an ice age, because we are just speeding up the process. Ice Ages are as predictable as the sunset. You know it will happen but you don't know when. We are speeding up the process. That might end us, but not in the near future.
Nuclear war is a very unlikely possibility, so no.
The human race will always survive, unless the evolve into another, smarter, fit, and overall better than us, the human race will survive.
What will happen? I've already stated it twice, but just to make sure, I'll state it again.
I think our scientific advances will make life so easy for us, that we won't have to do much to complete a job. Eventually, people won't need anything else. When that happens, inventions won't be made anymore. I think this (1950-2350) might be our peak of scientific advances.
We don't have the infrastructure to make a conversion like that. It takes more than a couple of years to develop!
Agreed, the global economy is structured in such a way that if petroleum, oil, gas etc. suddenly became obsolete, the worlds economic super powers would simply collapse. A depression would shake the world to it's very core would take place, and the pretty much everything gets shot to hell.
The heat melts the ice caps. If an ice cap, such as Greenland, were to completely collapse into the Atlantic Ocean, the warm water from the Gulf Current would turn icy, thus causing extremely cold temperatures. The entire US and Europe would be covered in ice sheets. The extremely large ice sheets would reflect the Sun's light, balancing the global climate. Eventually, the Snowball Effect would occur again.
Humans might not be able to prevent this, nor could they be able to survive it.
