Are we heading towards our own destruction?

Question

Are we heading towards our own destruction?

Answer 1

No. Modern industrialized countries today are at the highest standard of living in the history of the world.  And, other countries such as China and India which, historically, have been third world are now beginning to pull themselves up and become modernized.  It's called prosperity and it's a good thing.  Things are not as bad as they seem.  Media and government officials just like to dwell on a few things and then magnify them so they seem much worse than they actually are.

Answer 2

Yes for sure we will be our own worst enemy, very soon

Answer 3

One can only hope.

Answer 4

As someone who grew up during the seventies I used to think that we were all headed to destruction:

We could all die from a multitude of causes:

Thermal Nuclear war, there are enough nuclear weapons already to destroy the earth many times over.

We could all die in a new ice age, brought on by global warming and the melt down of the polar ice caps, and the cooling of the oceans and ceasing the thermal currents which warm up the oceans, decreasing rainfall, but increasing higher altitude snowfalls. It is a theory that global warming will be followed by sudden cooling and then the return of the glaciers.

We could all die due to unemployment, civil war, and starvation if the global economy fails. There are 3rd-world debts which the poor countries cannot even pay for the interest on the loans they took. If someone finally says the "Emperor has no clothes" the World Bank could fail since none of the banks are really in the black due to all of these bad loans or "non-performing assets." This would result in a financial collapse of the entire world economy.

The poisoning of the oceans and atmosphere can lead to the contamination and loss of food production leading to global famine and death by starvation and chronic mal-nutrition.

A virus more lethal than AIDS developed for biological warefare could escape or be launched that wipes out most of humanity in a world-wide "pandemic."

I used to be afraid of all of these possible ends for humanity. Now in the new millenium I think we are in for something worse than our own destruction. We are heading into a future which is just a repeat of the past, over and over again. There is a danger that each generation will just keep making the same mistakes over and over again.

Maybe all of the fear people have about the world ending is a waste of time. After all in a billion years, the sun will nova (explode) then contract into a black hole and all of the earth and the surrounding planets will be vaporized then swallowed up.

So maybe the more important question is, since we are all going to die someday, what are we going to make of the present? What good can we do and create while we are here?

"...And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."  Lennon-McCartney

Answer 5

sadly, yes

Answer 6

We keep moving further and further away from it, for reasons that actually are well-understood, even if not by many people.

http://www.juliansimon.com/

Answer 7

Not unless we accept the scam being promoted as AGW. We need to go into space for energy and materials that will sustain our civilization in health and comfort for millions of years. Our only problem today is a minor number of greedy shortsighted people that want to have everything and deny the rights of the average citizen. Hammer down the AGW promoters and let the race go ahead and expand into the universe as they are destined to.

If we do not expand into space then we will lose and join the dinosaur as genetic failures. Open the frontier and the future of the race is assured. Why let a group of greedy short sighted billionaires keep our children and grandchildren from what is rightfully theirs.

Answer 8

Like it or not humans are going to be the destrution of this planet at some point. All we can do is try to make changes to help the planet and have hope. But we can only postpone the world's destrution. (Unless we start living like cave people again. which might be best.)