How will the Human Race End?

[SubjectProphet]

Antibiotics become useless due to the overuse of anti-bacterial products and we'll all die from some form of bacterial infection.

 

Wrong. Science has gone so far we can treat cancer. No infection could kill off a race as advanced as us.

 

Our antibiotics become more advanced every time bacteria evolves.

[hoofhearted4]

Antibiotics become useless due to the overuse of anti-bacterial products and we'll all die from some form of bacterial infection.

 

Wrong. Science has gone so far we can treat cancer. No infection could kill off a race as advanced as us.

 

Our antibiotics become more advanced every time bacteria evolves.

 

except airborne AIDS :ohdear:

 

 

treatment and cures are two different things by far. we still cannot cure cancer.

 

also cancer isnt a virus. its not cured by antibodies.

 

actually, there isnt a cure for most diseases, there is treatment. but left untreated, any virus can kill you, even the common cold (Which thousands of people die from every year), if something like Ebola or Y. Pestis broke out on a massive scale, like in Japan or something, you can bet it would spread fast. and it probably wouldnt be contained either. if someone had it but didnt know, flew from Japan to America, well now America has it. because the world is so small now, something like that would spread globally extremely fast

[Nintii]

@ Beyondtom ... no, I have not read the book but I do have the "Apocolypse Now Redux" version of the movie ... 49 minutes longer than the original and it's a whole lot better.

 

Anyhow, Imy "world ending" is a potpurri of : Disease, nuclear war and natural disaster ... a biblical type of "it's only going to get worse".

[ita]

Wrong. Science has gone so far we can treat cancer. No infection could kill off a race as advanced as us.

 

Our antibiotics become more advanced every time bacteria evolves.

 

Wrong. Major pharmaceutical companies actually dedicate less research into new antibiotics since they're viewed as less profitable than other drugs. I'm sure you've heard news about MRSA outbreaks forcing hospitals to close off wards, now imagine what an aggressive strain of bacterial meningitis that's grown completely resistant to antibiotics could do.

[HellsMaster]

Not Biblical event but quite similar. Muslim believe in something a bit like the apocalypse you could say.

[NeKllte]

That's easy to answer. All of the above.

 

Read Raoul Allier's The Mind of the Savage. That is exactly what kills and has always been killing humanity. Essentially humanity has a difficult problem in distinguishing causation. Conversely, humanity is very capable (and usually right) about efficacy. As example: We informed or aware of the mechanical process know that cooking is done with fire. We have refined the knowledge of effect (cook) down to the necessary component (fire). A primitive mind does not do this. Instead, it associates everything in the room as a potentially necessary component. How this happens is very easy to see. A person today knows that to apply a toxin to an arrow renders the arrow poisonous. A primitive person may also apply poison to an arrow but alongside this is great care toward ritual. In the ritual all things that may have contributed to the creation of the effect "poison" are 'remembered'. The ritual is the dramatization in 'hopes' of result. The result of such is 'magic' and the efficacy (poison) is credited as "magical": arising from magic. The mention of poison may, and quite often, is forgotten. Thus, too, is much of all religion created and sustained. When one observes from a mechanistic perception one sees that cause and effect are related. One seeks, then, to identify causes and removes what is not causal to the most rarefied and indeed practical. When one perceives from a primitive mind, one discerns nothing of cause from effect. The mind seeks no discernment. In short, the intellect is arrested for sake of preserving efficacy. Any quick study will not fail to realize, however, that efficacy is not sustained in such a system. This is why the Dark Ages persisted for 1,000 years. Unable to self-correct (for fear of loss in what was preserved) nothing changed nor would change till something came from 'outside' it: the Windmill. (Look up European history to understand).

 

You can easily see the return to this kind of arresting decline in civilization today. The intellect is scorned. Invention has, for more than 100 years, been arrested. Humanity is in a new dark age of replication.

 

Until modern times, the human being saw little change in patterns of Thought, the Elements, Society, the Social and the technological. Even during the industrial revolution machinery only improved some condition nature made difficult. The end of progress by machine began in the 1970s has continued since. Now the new machine is the computer. Where the old machine replaced manual labor the new machine replaces need of purpose and functionality: at least in mind, not reality.

 

Today, reliance on computer technology substitutes the pragmatist and realist with the inadequacy, eccentric, ignorant, greedy and wishful. While it allows for progress in the socio-political spheres and some progress for suffrage it is largely a vast distraction. Distraction as humanity uses up the last of its oil reserves. Distraction with social conflicts that should have been realized and resolved (literally) ages ago but religion and-culture forbid resolution too. Humanity is always and has always tried to substitute solution for automation. The ultimate zombie-zeitgeist.

 

First humanity will run out of resources for such things as Water and even Climate will be a resource. This will, of course, mean the end of food production. Then or at the same time, it will run out of oil. At which point it will no longer have the fuel necessary to get the fuel to power the machines acquiring that fuel. It will be at this point the entire asinine structure collapses in starvation.

 

None of this will be immediate (in causing extinction) and attempts at repair to the 'system' will be improved upon as the 'radical' (practical) is finally pursued. Yet, this 'hope' is nothing as an equally and honestly, greater majority, (too ignorant to do differently) will attempt to halt this resolution at all costs so as to sustain the system they have lived within. This is because the human being is essentially a creature of terrain. If it is born in 19th century London, then that is its climate, its ecosystem: its biosphere. It is in its interest, psychologically, spiritually and physically to preserve such as this is how it has learned to function and is all that it is aware of being able to function within. Yet, the system fails and the ecosystem dies.

 

This is, and will be, the 'slower' end to humanity. It is more likely. The faster end is through a total nuclear war or some annihilation of what biospheres humanity thrives from. This 'sudden' end is unlikely as most parties are barely smart enough to prevent it (usually). There is evidence, of course, that in our not so distance past, humanity did indeed return itself to such a primitive being it could no longer recognize any other state.

 

Currently humanity is still capable of creating a sustainable energy system permitting of 'high', and yet higher, technologies. Should it run out of oil before it can create a sustainable energy system then the die off will be in the billions and extinction is possible. Should it find a sustainable energy resource or allow itself to use those available then it will still have access to much of the technology it has acquired. The die off will still occur but at a much reduced magnitude (in the short term). This may enable it to go on as it has for another 145 years. However, for every 30 years hence there will be an excited potential for sudden and catastrophic instability.

 

The largest problem will be socio-religious factors. Unable to understand its mental processes humanity views the world practically still with the primitive mind entirely intact. It attributes efficacy to miracle as often as it does what is causal and makes no concerted effort to determine fact. It claims the mental as the spiritual and constantly confuses these amongst itself: making claims of truth for both. Social change is nearly impossible and democracies are nearly impossible to maintain when the population is content to 'believe' rather than to 'perceive': as is the current state. Enhanced by the dis-allowance of actual participation in government by any large degree and the ever increasing decline in even interest to restore cognition amongst the populous it is unlikely this current population of humanity has much left to offer without being confronted by some external element (off planet) that forces change.

 

Even such a change would not necessarily result in any 'difference' in future history from that of the past as the 'hardware' 'human-being' remains unaltered. The future outlook of humanity is thus. What would be different of terrain is the heavy reliance that will arise on biology as the new technology. Everything else will be out of reach.

[mattlittlej]

Well, all life on this planet will come to an end when the sun cooks all the water off the planet with its gradual warming and subsequent transformation into a red dwarf, the latter will swallow the Earth and completely obliterate it. Fortunately we've got 2 billion years to figure something out. Edited April 2, 2012 by mattlittlej

[SubjectProphet]

Let's say this:

 

WW3 is a nuclear war that blows everything up and everyone dies. The end.

 

There, I just said how the world will end. As we advance in tech, we get closer to killing each other off. Humanity will end itself, nothing else will.

[Sarissi]

The Fallout Scenario is not that far fetched. We are squeezing the PRC right now via Oil. The PRC has been making noises about open war with the USA via their rhetoric. How much of that is just political BS remains to be seen.

[gamer45413]

no matter what hell is created for us in the future the human race is bound to survive several more world wars followed by an atomic fallout and Armageddon and ending in the rebuild of human civilization.

 

rinse and repeat

Edited April 9, 2012 by gamer45413