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Originally Posted by Mohoender
I'm not an ecologyst at all (I don't have much respect for these people who want to bring us back to the stone age and advocate that we should save the planet, what is probably way beyond our reach) but if we continue as we do today, I doubt that we could last very long. If you are right (IMO there is a good chance that you are), the human species will simply fade away (kind of a computer reset) and that's fine with me. Also, I truly whish (but doubt it) that we could be smart enough to find some other ways. Strangely, I know plenty of them but just lack the money to make the needed changes. Not to talk about legal limitations.
If Alien archeologist ever come to earth they might find out that humanity went extinct simply because we thought that the investment wasn't worth it, Oops!! 
A funny assesment came from the large technolgical/scientific park (Futuroscope) we have in France next to Poitier. They advertise people to come and discover annimals from the future. However, what they don't say in the advertisement is that their scientists came up with the conclusion that mankind will be among the first species to disappear.  I love that one. 
Sorry for that small digression, Paul made me feel the urge to say it.  |
I really don't buy much into the doom and gloom myself, this is the only thing I'm going to say about it, my view is that God is in control we are along for the ride. I just don't think it is as bad as some say, that's my final comment on that, all responses on this topic will fall on deaf ears since it could end up as a hot debate. I'm more worried about the economy and the effect thereof.
Still, I think there will always be ways to tackle the future's problems, but we must wait for the future to develop them. I'm more worried about the interdependency if our economic systems taking us all down and then a Twilight War erupts from that and we get knocked back. On the Other Hand, perhaps we wimper out and retard to some point and start again. I favor the Atlantis Theories myself, maybe we had a technical civilization once, twice or a few times before ours, somebody does something stupid or we collapse under our own weight and start over again.
I like to think when we reach a certain tech level, it is a race for us to colonize space or we will go through some sort of retardation process and reboot civilization. That is my pet theory.
Chuck