[Closed] What will be the demise of the human race?

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What will be the end of the human race? The human race.

Dr Doom has spoken.

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Population growth...too many people and not enough resources, especially fresh water, as we approach that time, famine strikes, wars break out...billions die.

On the plus side there will be less traffic...

Judging by the other thread - a lack of faith. Runs for nearest door! 😉

If we actually manage to create technology that'll allow us to terraform planets and get to said planets in reasonable time then I'm not sure anything ever will be. Big if that though. Otherwise, who knows - there are plenty of things that could take a nice chunk out of the population of the human race. At what point does that chunk become so big that we can't recover from it? Or what sort of event does it take to ensure that even with a fair sized chunk left we can't recover?

There's enough people with enough ingenuity and enough people with enough money to pay them to be ingenious that at least an elite core will survive right up until the world ceases to be capable of supporting life. After that they'll probably spend a rather long time travelling through space looking for somewhere new.

In the meantime wars over religion and resources will probably make the world an unpleasant place for large sectors of the population. Apple and Microsoft may be called upon to hand out huge quantities of free product loaded with 'Angry Birds' to act as a pacifier to hostile groups.

Itll be a zombie apocalypse, already started in some towns or maybe we will become the Borg permanently plugged into tech.

Either way we won't see happening just have vague feeling things ain't what they used to be.

I get that feeling now!

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I can't see a global nuclear war anymore, but I reckon a combination of virus outbreaks, wars over resources/water, and climate change will seriously thin out the population in the relatively near future. To actually totally wipe out humans in one go would need a Yellowstone volcano/asteroid type event, but I think a combination of less dramatic events will lead to people just dwindling away over a longish period, perhaps evolving into something else that we wouldn't call human or eventually being supplanted by something else.
I'm not so optimistic about a Kurzweil-type singularity or colonising other planets to the point that the human race could keep going indefinitely.

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