Destruction of the Earth

[Static]

The Human world will end when people do the right thing and release the super viruses, killing the surplus population, possibly allowing the few left living to create a working peaceful society, and eventually, that will fail due to unforseen natural circumstances, and we will probably all die off.

 

And thats the way the world works. We have 5 billion more years to get it right, maybe the next intelligent being to evolve will drop its animal instincts faster and realize that Evolution is like an upside down parabola rather than a positive logistic.

 

Sorry to go math on the argument, but it paints the picture pretty well if you got what I was saying :/

[#1 phan]

Lol at Global Warming.

[Flinsbon]

The Sun is about 5 billion years old and is about halfway through its life. The Earth will likely be destroyed at the end of the Sun's life when it swells into a Red Giant and swallows the Earth. That means the Earth will be destroyed in about 4.5 billion - 5 billion years. I'd say that's a while.

 

We should have lives like on Star Trek.

-No money

-No wars on Earth

-Most diseases can be cured quickly and easily.

-No pollution on Earth

-Weather management systems that stop most natural disasters/bad weather. No tornadoes, no hurricanes, etc.

 

The only problem is, on Star Trek, these changes only occurred after World War III (a nuclear war with atomic bombs, etc.) in which six hundred million people were killed and the governments of most countries were torn apart.

[Static]

Nuclear war is far from occurring. Think about it, wouldn't we rather use Chemical and Biological weapons, Chemical only hurts the country they hit, and biological will most probably be used by insurgeons in a populous, Bioterrorism, rather than imploding anthrax bombs all over a continent and having it inevitably plaguing your allies. That all sounds more plausible than blowing the entire face of life off of the planet.

 

Also, Neutron Bombs on oil refineries..... Highly plausible and Highly effective.

 

EDIT: Star Trek doesn't have mentally disabled people, and everyone tries to be efficient. HA, take that Anti-T4 fools.

[JesusofChaos™]

If nothing is done, i believe that excessive population will wipe out the human race. Wiping out the human race is different from destroying the earth. The earth will be destroyed when the sun decides to implode.

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Nuclear war is far from occurring. Think about it' date=' wouldn't we rather use Chemical and Biological weapons, Chemical only hurts the country they hit, and biological will most probably be used by insurgeons in a populous, Bioterrorism, rather than imploding anthrax bombs all over a continent and having it inevitably plaguing your allies. That all sounds more plausible than blowing the entire face of life off of the planet.

 

Also, Neutron Bombs on oil refineries..... Highly plausible and Highly effective.

 

EDIT: Star Trek doesn't have mentally disabled people, and everyone tries to be efficient. HA, take that Anti-T4 fools.

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*hugs*

[Crystal Beast 123]

If nothing is done' date=' i believe that excessive population will wipe out the human race. Wiping out the human race is different from destroying the earth. The earth will be destroyed when the sun decides to implode.

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Overpopulation. Yes. Actually, the Earth's population is increasing by about 7,000 people a day. Eventually, we will not have enough food to support everyone. We will, yes, die out.

[Guest PikaPerson01]

To say that the world ends when human life does is lol-worthy.

 

On-topic: Unsubstantiated claims are unsubstantiated.

[Dream2Defy]

i think the world will change but all organisms on earth will evolve like many organisms before us have

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oh yeah i can be deep

[Christian-Exodia]

Maybe it will, maybe it won't

*Looks at hurricane season*

Err...Crap!My birthday's in late October!I'm screwed

*Puts on cap, leaves, & heads for Cinncinati*

[Static]

To say that the world ends when human life does is lol-worthy.

 

On-topic: Unsubstantiated claims are unsubstantiated.

 

Read the entire first post of the debate.

 

I'm pretty sure that the debate is what the topic writer implied it to be, despite how misguiding the title may be.

[Flinsbon]

According to Star Trek Voyager, in "Threshold", humans will look something like this after millions of years of evolution. That's going to be awkward, isn't it?

 

[Guest]

If nothing is done' date=' i believe that excessive population will wipe out the human race. Wiping out the human race is different from destroying the earth. The earth will be destroyed when the sun decides to implode.

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Overpopulation. Yes. Actually, the Earth's population is increasing by about 7,000 people a day. Eventually, we will not have enough food to support everyone. We will, yes, die out.

 

Nonsense.

 

I'm going to make up some obviously wrong numbers here, just for argument's sake.

 

Suppose the earth's resources will become unable to support humans once the population reaches ten billion. Now, suppose we reach ten billion. What happens? Does everyone instantly die of starvation and collapse simultaneously? Of course not! Those with access to food can survive; those without cannot. The deaths of those without solve the overpopulation problem.

[Ecoboy1324]

If nothing is done' date=' i believe that excessive population will wipe out the human race. Wiping out the human race is different from destroying the earth. The earth will be destroyed when the sun decides to implode.

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Overpopulation. Yes. Actually, the Earth's population is increasing by about 7,000 people a day. Eventually, we will not have enough food to support everyone. We will, yes, die out.

 

Nonsense.

 

I'm going to make up some obviously wrong numbers here, just for argument's sake.

 

Suppose the earth's resources will become unable to support humans once the population reaches ten billion. Now, suppose we reach ten billion. What happens? Does everyone instantly die of starvation and collapse simultaneously? Of course not! Those with access to food can survive; those without cannot. The deaths of those without solve the overpopulation problem.

 

Darwinism at its finest

[Dark]

Meh... I see where I made the mistake. It is not the destruction of the Earth, but the human population. That is what I meant. No one noticed that?

[Essa]

that goddamn lhc int helpin the earth either why can't some scientists leave things be?

[Skuldur]

Humans will die out sooner or later. It's inevitable.

 

But how we will die out is debatable.

 

i think it will be either a Natural Disaster ( Super Volcanos ) or a huge atomic war

[Flinsbon]

If we do not die out, humans will eventually look much different (see my previous post for a picture).

[Skuldur]

If we do not die out' date=' humans will eventually look much different (see my previous post for a picture).

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Not necesseraly, evolution is adjusting to a new enviroment. But humans, we adjust the enviroment to us. So there would be no need to evolve and look different.

[Bakura Vessal]

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A. Global warming is melting polar ice caps' date=' which flow into the oceans. They expect a few inches rise every year from 2010 on. This means BIG trouble for coastal cities. And a lotttttta people live in coastal cities.

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Thats true, but coastal citys getting drowened has nothing to do with the end of the world, it just means carnage.

 

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B. Global warming is extending our summer & spring (in America)' date=' which means the Hurricane, Tornado and Tsunami season is being extended. They expect in 2100, Hurricane season will range from early May to late October! Yikes![/quote']

I don't live in america, so how would that affect me or the rest of the world, just move to another contry if you are scared.

 

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C. Drilling for oil and gas is disrupting the flow of the Earth. Will this do anything? Not much. But once we run out of oil' date=' what are we going to do. We can't wait until who-knows-when to find an alternative fuel. And when oil runs out, no one is gonna wanna walk to school.

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They are already inventing hyrigen cars, and have invented hyro battrys, so I wouldnt worry bout that, worst comes to worst you could get stuff from other planets.

 

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D. Obesity and diseases are spreading like crazy. If this keeps up with the expected numbers' date=' we will die out quickly.

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Desease have always spreaded, lets say for example the black plage, it was much worse and people thought it was the end of the world, they then found out it was the fleas on rats and prevented it, simple.

 

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E. Other countries and regions are suffering from poverty and AIDS. If we don't help them' date=' more people will die from AIDS and other horrible diseases I would not like to mention.

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And this has got to do with the world ending how, its the same as D

 

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F. The war (not just in Iraq' date=' all wars) are killing more and more and more troops each day. I cannot say we can STOP wars, per se, but we can make an effort to stop some wars and back out of some wars.

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Tell that to bush

 

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When taking these six things to mind' date=' I think that the Earths population will be diminsed really quickly. I doubt we can live under these conditions much longer. Please discuss.

[/quote']We have lived in conditions worst than this since the dawn of time

 

We would suvive

[∮.Ғσяgσттeи.SσℓÐιєя.∮]

technichly,the word will die either a million years from now,because the sun moves 3 centimeters a decade,resulting in overheating and death in the world,or 5 billion years from now,because of the natural act of the sun losing heat,and certain chemicals,which will kill many living things on earth becuase of no sun.our sun is just an average star,it glows moderately for 10 billion years,then goes out,unlike big stars who shine billions of degrees,then go out in 10 million years.tiny stars shine very lightly for 100 billion years, then go out.it is all very true what you said,but i'm putting what will for sure kill the earth.

~Mikooo~

[Cin]

The Earth does heat up, but Global Warming has detached from the Sun's 11 year Solar Cycle, and has continued to heat up even when Solar activity reaches its minimum during the cycle. Heating amplifies the strength and frequency of any Atmosphere based Natural Disaster (as well Thunderstorm strength resulting in more Thunderstorms strong enough to produce Tornadoes and produce ALOT of them), already we have South America getting one of its first EVER Hurricanes, having seen data about the frequencies of Hurricanes in my 2007 Geography exam of Hurricanes, there is a marked increase in Frequency, and Intensity appears to increase each year, BUT you can't use Hurricanes as a reason to say Global Warming is happening as El Nino and La Nina cause natural fluctuations.

 

The place to keep your eye on is Antarctica and Greenland as they are Ice sitting on a landmass, which means any massive melting there WILL raise Sea Levels. Already island chains have been lost to the sea with Tuvalu at very high risk of being lost within 50 years, for other places like Bangladesh and even Holland (of which 50% of the country is reclaimed from the sea) you could see 50% of the country gone with only small changes.

 

On 'clean' engines. Just how is the Hydrogen produced? Very uncleanly. Electric cars still have an advantage over Petrol, but they will still need to be in the future made renewably.

 

SOS is right we have survived worse, or rather organisms have, volcanic winters have nearly decimated life atleast once. Volcanoes play a HUGE role in temperature regulation without them life may have never started.

 

The Earth will probably not die for 5 billion years due to the death of the Sun, but people may not last that long.

 

Static your comment made me lol (on killing off all the useless people), because that's exactly what someone wanted to do in the 3rd Death Note film. Disease has been around and always will be no one can solve all ills. (Like no one will ever be able to find a cure for the common cold, since it has 1000s of strains)

 

People will always find something to war over, so war is not gonna not happen, and may only get worse as people seek out places they can actually grow food. If Global Warming is correct, we could see Desert spreading across Europe, especially the already arid Spain. Some may arguments have been put forward for stopping war, but man has always will fight over something. (Times like this when I think Humans are not really all that intelligent)

 

Malthusian theory practice in theory JOC, Malthus believed that once Population outstripped Food Production, that population would start fall (of course there's holes in the theory with the invention of HYV). I can see what you mean China doesn't have enough water for its people, let along clean water....the Yellow River is a disaster.

 

Having done Geography to A Level and having a very Science based mind, I can see Global Warming is happening, but only because the Earth does not have the physical time to correct the imbalance, before it could correct the imbalance with the help of the Sun and the Volcanoes, but now its too rapid and throwing way too much of the Coal that the Volcanoes sealed back up again. For some people it has to happen fast for them to take notice.

 

Already the seasons are taking a shift over, Spring is now 2 weeks earlier, and the UK has had its first Snow (in OCTOBER FFS)

[Flinsbon]

Have you guys heard of that calculation about a species where when that calculation is at a certain number, something happens? Apparently, if it exceeds 3, the species become extinct. I wonder what humans are at right now.