Is civilization as we know it coming to an end soon? Why or why not?

Question

on one hand people have been predicting the world's end for centuries, but on the other hand has theworld ever been in this kind of chaos?

Answer 1

The world has been in much worse situations. Barring the problems right now with oil prices and Iraq, the world is actually pretty stable.

Having said that, I am fairly sure that civilization is already dead. Any world where the existence/nonexistence of Paris Hilton's underpants rates more news coverage than Darfur is a world where civilization must have died...

Answer 2

The world is improving people are growing more wise, there are less wars, and in a short while everything will take a new course. Hybridization is the reason..

Answer 3

Yes fifty years ago life was very different . We are constanly changing as is the world we live in. The end has happened every one hundred years or sooner nowadays.

Answer 4

Its just Cr@p..........

Answer 5

If the world's major ice caps in Antarctica and Greenland, and the major mountain glaciers in the Himalyas, Andes, North America and China, continue to melt at the current rate (and we know of no way of stopping it, so far), world sea level is calculated to rise 40 meters (131 feet) in the next 50 to 100 years. That will permanently flood almost all of the world's major centers of population and some 60% of all the world's food producing agricultural land. It will also bring drought to those population centers and agricultural lands which rely on summer glacial melt water to see them through the hottest time of the year.

It seems fair to assume that we are witnessing the end of civilisation as we know it. What a stupid way to end 7000 years of progress.