Gawdzilla Sama
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Pickled pigs' feet.
What will cause human's extinction?
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pluto2:
I'm sorry to hear that. How do you post to this forum?
I hope you're getting some help. Nothing is so bad that you should kill yourself.
May I ask why? What have you done?
Humans seem to have been, and continue to be, the cause of the extinction of many animals.
Do you think natural causes are the reason for these extinctions?
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org...y/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/
"It's frightening but true: Our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals — the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We're currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Although extinction is a natural phenomenon, it occurs at a natural “background” rate of about one to five species per year. Scientists estimate we're now losing species at up to 1,000 times the background rate, with literally dozens going extinct every day [1]. It could be a scary future indeed, with as many as 30 to 50 percent of all species possibly heading toward extinction by mid-century [2].
Unlike past mass extinctions, caused by events like asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions, and natural climate shifts, the current crisis is almost entirely caused by us — humans. In fact, 99 percent of currently threatened species are at risk from human activities, primarily those driving habitat loss, introduction of exotic species, and global warming[3]. Because the rate of change in our biosphere is increasing, and because every species' extinction potentially leads to the extinction of others bound to that species in a complex ecological web, numbers of extinctions are likely to snowball in the coming decades as ecosystems unravel. "
...more at : https://www.biologicaldiversity.org...y/elements_of_biodiversity/extinction_crisis/
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Seattle
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My point would have been more accurate I suppose if I had said that I think humans will become extinct just like many other animals, by natural events.
I don't think humans are going to blow up the planet with nuclear weapons to the point where humans become extinct. I think the greater risk is just the natural warming of the planet which will occur as the Sun burns more and more hydrogen.
I'm not discounting any negative climate changes that are caused by man and I'm not discounting any species that go extinct due to man's "development" of their environments.
I'm all for man being responsible in "his" stewardship of the planet. I'm not too concerned if man becomes extinct in a billion years (or in millions of years). It is what it is. Earth itself will survive longer but at a certain point it will cease to exist and life will cease to exist long before that.
Grok'd.
Seattle
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I don't know what that means.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/grok
" Coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his novel Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)...to understand (something) intuitively, to know (something) without having to think intellectually...To fully and completely understand something in all of its details and intricacies...Grok is used mainly by the geeksubculture, though it was heavily used by the counterculture of the 1960s, as evidenced by its repeated appearance in Tom Wolfe's “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.” "
There is obviously no God or anything it's all bullshit.
Human extinction will happen sooner or later and I think it will be for the better for the most part because people these days are very greedy and selfish and everyone thinks only about himself and his own wellbeing and about his own survival.
I'm sure that extreme greed obviously kills many people every day and therefore it will better if greedy humans and their greed will not exist.
Human extinction will happen sooner or later and I think it will be for the better for the most part because people these days are very greedy and selfish and everyone thinks only about himself and his own wellbeing and about his own survival.
I'm sure that extreme greed obviously kills many people every day and therefore it will better if greedy humans and their greed will not exist.
3 additional ways of human extinction:
Evolution to a different species
Disinterest in real sex (low hormone levels, low sperm quality etc).
Womb-affecting viruses. The apparatus for human pregnancy and the physiology of pregnancy have evolved to be so complex, with multiple checkpoints and this can be our troyan horse.
Any of these factors can slowly cause human exticnction after several generations...
Evolution to a different species
Disinterest in real sex (low hormone levels, low sperm quality etc).
Womb-affecting viruses. The apparatus for human pregnancy and the physiology of pregnancy have evolved to be so complex, with multiple checkpoints and this can be our troyan horse.
Any of these factors can slowly cause human exticnction after several generations...
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The reason I wish a global consolidated effort to expand into space would prevail as #1 priority. Imo, we are sitting ducks on this planet. No Plan B or redundancy in our long term survival. A mankind induced catastrophic event, or Cosmos event, could wipe us all out. The sooner we advance technolgy to expand into space, the better our odds of surviving imo. Hopefully simultaneously and in multiple directions. That way multiple catastrophes would be required to wipe out mankind.
As a species we really like to bully and abuse each other a lot. We really like to make life miserable for each other.
Everyone seems so artificial these days.
Therefore I think humanity actually deserves to become extinct in order to give place for a more moral and worthy species.
Everyone seems so artificial these days.
Therefore I think humanity actually deserves to become extinct in order to give place for a more moral and worthy species.
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Write4U
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Life started with chemistry and chemistry will probably be the ultimate cause of human destruction.
The only species which are able to change their body chemistry are the insects and smaller.
That's why there are only two species on the increase; man because he can change his environment and the insect which can adapt to all changes man can make to the environment.
In the end it'll be the insect which will rule the world. It's very size and simplicity makes it able to survive where man (and dinosaur) will fall.
And this looks a little what we can expect in the long run.
Being an extremophile has its advantages.
The only species which are able to change their body chemistry are the insects and smaller.
That's why there are only two species on the increase; man because he can change his environment and the insect which can adapt to all changes man can make to the environment.
In the end it'll be the insect which will rule the world. It's very size and simplicity makes it able to survive where man (and dinosaur) will fall.
And this looks a little what we can expect in the long run.
Being an extremophile has its advantages.
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RainbowSingularity
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in the usa are prisoners listed officially as homeless ?
RainbowSingularity
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If humanity survives another billion years on this planet then it will not be chemistry but it will be rising surface temperatures from the slowly growing sun.
But then yet again, who knows what kind of technology humans will have in a billion years from now, provided that we even survive this long.
RainbowSingularity
Valued Senior Member
speaking of which
African swine flu has around a 50 to 65% death rate inside the first 2 days
if that jumped to humans...
well
lets just say all those apocalypse movies on alien invasions or pandemics etc would become a reality.
