What do you think is the biggest threat to humanity?

[memor the peaceful]

Biggest threat to humanity? Stupid humans.

there's something to this, in that there are far too many of us stupid humans.


since 1950, the population has nearly trebled. this is a severe problem which is all to often ignored, and it's only going to get worse-so unless there's a huge difference in world attitude. and it really does have to be a world attitude change because the areas with the highest populations also tend to the the places with the most rigid attitudes. china tried (rightfully in my eyes) to implement a birth-limit of sorts, restricting couples to only two children. unfortunately because their society is so patriarchal, this resulted in so much infanticide of young girls it's almost too much to comprehend. i wish i knew the figures for sure, but i also think i read at some point that after 10 years of this, there was a 80:20 ration of male to females. a friend of mine suggested, amusingly, that this would cause an uprising of homosexuality in china. whether it has or not is yet to be confirmed.


but speaking of homosexuality... perhaps it offers some hope in this respect. the past 50 years have seen many gay or bisexual men and women liberated from having to follow the norms of a hetrosexual culture, which will obviously mean that less babies are going to be produced, which is never a bad thing. however, going back to places like china and india... it's going to be quite a long time before the great moral zeitgeist floats it's way over yonder.

I don't think It's one event that will expel mankind from the land, rather the two intrinsic values of man kind, that will in one way or another equate to disasterous events; our need to constantly progress and not look back.

Imagine if you will, a worldly bus seated by all of mankind, on they travel aiming for the perfect destination.
Low and behold! In the distance approaches a side street labeled Goal Rd, but the bus passes by anyway without inspecting.
"Did you not see the sign?" asks a passenger, "Is that not where we are headed?"

"It is indeed where we are headed," says the driver, "But i'm sure we'll find a way there if we keep on our current path."

It's a floored logic, but we abide by it, and I find it rather poetic that our striving is what will kill us all in the end.

this is a really interesting little parable. did you write it?

[Maine]

@memor I did indeed write it, just something that was floating around in my brain.

[Takamei Edevane]

The biggest threat to humanity?  I would say humanity themselves. Reasons why I think this are pretty obvious when you look around, especially the news and such. War, CO2 levels, ozone layer ect.

[Shiothefox]

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[TechRoo]

Well, whatever kills us will most likely be something we created/caused.... or a giant meteorite. Its just we shame we arn't just killing ourselfes, but rather every living thing on this planet. But after seeing that meteorite in russia i truly believe it to be a real threat.

[Friday]

Guys, please refrain from bashing other groups of people. For the record, I consider "all people" a part of the set "groups of people;" therefore, I consider statements that make any sorts of claims that 'all humans should die/disappear' to be bashing and trolling, and will be moderated as such. This thread is ripe for the making of many such statements, and I don't want to have to lock it because of that. I believe you guys can have a reasonable discussion.

Please don't prove me wrong.

Thanks,

Friday

[sigols]

I belive its overpopulation like Zephyr said. I think we need another world war, I don`t want one, but I think the earth need one. When you look at the news it seem like we might be on the edge of one, we humans are to different to be able to have peace. We are ment for killing eachother, we all have our own meanings and some don`t tolerate that others don`t belive in their "truth". So its in my opinion, the minds of mankind that is our doom.

[BakaFawkes]

Zeph and I must have ESP or something, I just wrote a short story/essay about how we'll be overpopulated in the near future until eventually there will be no way to sustain the population, and that's when the crime rates skyrocket into national threats and the world's order breaks down.

[DarkWolf556]

My opinion is that the biggest threat to mankind are themselves.

[HyenaKing]

A solution to overpopulation:a lab-made virus that kills all the unhealthy.
there was a virus that killed  close to 10 million and had a 3% Kill rate.
5 years ago there was a virus bioengineering to have 50% kill rate.
That is a monster that could kill 150+ Million. Imagine what they could do today.
I honestly think that could be a very plausible solution to that.


When people came to the west in America (1800s), Indians Were sparse, because they had a smallpox infection apocalypse when the Europeans came(late 1700s). It was a civilization like Europe with a completely different culture, before the smallpox apocalypse. What Americans saw in the wild west (the indian civilization) was 100 years after a apocalypse. If there was a Pandemic like that, That is what it would look like (roughly) 100 years after a modern day pandemic.
 

[White Wolf Guardian]

Contrary to popular belief, modern day statisticians will tell you that populations are actually decreasing in developed countries, but in third world countries it is always increasing. More and more people find the thought of having children to be unsatisfying.

I think the biggest threat to humanity is globalized government.

[Nrein]

If you ask me the biggest threat to humanity is all the ideas about dealing with overpopulation as the biggest threat to humanity, just after reading a lot of the posts on here :I

I'm sorry but I feel more threatened when people surmise that it'd be better to risk myself being killed off by some sort of virus just because I'm "taking up space", than bumping a few elbows with people cus there's more of us around.

[Oedipus Rex]

I enjoy the fact that people are like "The world is running out of space! We need to kill loads of people to make room!"
Actually, I'm strangely optimistic about this this. Russia and America are both currently working on sending people to Mars. So by the time the world gained enough people to officially overpopulate planet earth, It's possible that half the human population could be living on mars, fighting off the EDF with hammers.
Nah, Humans are fine. We're like that little stain that you can't quite get out of your favorite shirt. Unless something drastic happens, like total nuclear war, we'll be around for a while.

[Nrein]

Colonization is the best solution to helping population, only problem is we don't get them warp engines >:C

But then at that point we'll become a bigger target to all them Xeno's out there.  And then things'll get really messy.

[Bubblegum]

Is it possible that we'll die from a simple lack of cooperation and paranoia? It seems people are increasingly loathe to so much as share public space.