How will humanity end?

Question

how do you think it will end??

Answer 1

We are already on the way to biological extinction...

Answer 2

The "Second Coming".  And depending how you have lived your life and continue to live your life, you should have nothing to worry about.

Answer 3

"not with a bang, but a whimper."

-t. s. Eliot

Answer 4

" 3 days left to answer".

Now look what you've done!

I guess it's a good time what with Manchester United currently reigning as Engllsh and European Champions.

Here we go..................!!!

Answer 5

We will cease the reigns of our own evolution and our species will end in the singularity event.

Answer 6

The sun will grow and grow, and probably consume earth.  If it does not grow this big as a red giant, it will eventually collapse in on itself, and if it does not become a black hole when it collapses we will still freeze to death.  Hopefully we will have found ways to live on other worlds before then.

Answer 7

By the slow evolution of humans into their next natural living forms.  Although the evolution will probably be brought on by a near-extinction...due to wars, disease and pollution.

Answer 8

Everything will continuously get worse and worse until we turn on each other and kill each other. In the end it will probably be a nuclear war.  Tensions are already high EVERYWERE. Countries need oil so they will/ already have gone to war for it. The US is starting to have trouble providing water for its entire population. (Water is the next oil). They will first ask nicely but eventually as drinkable water is being drunken far more quickly then the earth can re-supply it, we will go to war for it. Meanwhile, over population will create tension and violence. Countries will want to expand its borders. We will go to war for land. Because of all this violence the cost of everything will rise. Poverty will drastically increase. As population and the desperate need to find alternative fuels increases, food will become even scarcer. We may go to war for that. Then some person will send a nuke and be like there... no more need for oil, no more need for water, no more need for food, no more need for land! Of course that country will probably respond right before they all die by sending a nuke to the other country. The United Nations will condemn this and send a nuke to this country too in fear that they will be next and in return may get a nuke themselves. Global warming will get drastically worse because of all the bombs and fires. So anyone left will probably die. If not from a natural disaster then from trying to drink contaminated water that has chemicals in it and stuff from bombs.    I have a lovely outlook don't I?  If all of this stuff I said doesn’t happen, I can guarantee it wasn't because of some super hero or politician. I will be because the scientists have found an alternative energy and made mars habitable so people can live there and earth will be less crowded and stop using up all of our natural resources so quickly so that they can renew themselves.

Answer 9

god has nothing to do with humanity. if we base the answer on science, humanity will end when there will be so much pollution that everyone will die.

Answer 10

Unless we evolve to breath in carbon dioxide...in about 150 million years at most

Answer 11

it's anyone's guess. but I guess one of two ways. slowly, and painfully or quick and massive

Answer 12

Irrationality is the only way that humanity will end.

Answer 13

if people go businuiess as usual and think money and personal wealth is more important than our planet, yes we will all be poisoned by our greed, exhaust all our recources until every last river is dry and all the matrials digested like locusts swarming a field

Answer 14

it won't. why would god end his awesome creation???

Answer 15

I hope that if humanity will end it will be because our successors can no longer be called merely human, but will surpass us in knowlege, intelligence and wisdom.

Answer 16

There are many ways that humanity _could_ end, though only a few of them are actually feasible.  Most of the means of destruction currently in vogue, like global warming or 2012, are pretty much nothing but hysteria with zero chance of ending humanity.

Global warming:  even the extreme worst-case scenarios, which are also the most extremely unlikely scenarios, might end human civilization, but no one in the scientific community is predicting that it could actually extinct our species.  The most likely scenario involves some light disruption to our civilization and moderate disruption to our economies.

2012:  this is mythology, pure and simple.  And actually, even the Mayans wouldn't say that it's the end of the world.  See here:  http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4093

Asteroid strike big enough to extinct us:  extremely unlikely in the next century.  Beyond that, our technology should have advanced more than enough to deal with any potential future collisions.

Sun eventually swelling up at the end of its life:  by the time this happens, humans will have long ago evolved into another species, so technically it wouldn't be us that would be affected.  Nonetheless, I'm pretty confident that we or our descendant species will have become a spacefaring race long before then, and will have spread out to the cooler outer planets, maybe even to other star systems.

While our continued existence is by no means guaranteed, I think the most likely means by which humans will cease to exist is by evolving into a new species.  With radically advanced science & technology, this may happen (much) sooner than later.  Check out the Wiki links below for more on this.

Answer 17

by the slow steady desctruction of itself by man. Start with a nuclear holocaust, plagued by war, disease. Its already coming. I watched this thing on the discovery or history chanel and it said that the end of man with come 12-12-2012. Thats when the aztech calender ends and the end of man is marked by a few things. One of them is when women start to wear their hair like men and the world is plagued by war. Pretty grim i know. I didn't make it up though.  A neat video on youtube

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should this video be banned.

its a jesus thing but has good believeable points

Answer 18

Only God knows how humanity will end, even the Angels don't know how humanity will end!

Answer 19

either we kill each other like Hitler almost did. or a giant fireball. or starvation to soilentgreen. its a movie look up on what its about.

Answer 20

Asteroid colliding with the earth, or a polar shift.