What do you think is the biggest threat to human civilization?

Question

Please choose from the following:

1. Nuclear Apocolypse

The world is consumed in a nuclear war and very few people live, if any. Radioactive fallout kills many who survive its onslaught...

2. Environmental Doomsday

Global warming increases the strength and durration of natural disasters, such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and flooding. Humanity is consumed by the world itself...

3. Viral Decimation

A deadly virus mutates and becomes immune to all forms of treatment. It wipes out most of the earth's population, and leaves a small number of people who survive and become resistant and eventually immune. Civilization is tossed back into the stone-age, and all efforts are concentrated on repopulating the planet...

Answer 1

Humans themselves.

The rest of the scenarios are just ways of wiping ourselves out.

Answer 2

Environmental Doomsday

Answer 3

3. from an engineered super virus produced by the Soviet Union.  The Russians  probably still have them around.

Answer 4

We're an infection, a parasite on the wonderful world of "Ours" given to us to maintain by a Superior being. He intended for us to "go forth and multiply" and we have, but, in so doing, we have totally abandoned all reasons for foolish advances in our systems.

       We have generated wars, we have created nuclear items for destruction of our total being. We have spread diseases that have annihilated entire cultures.

       While 18 million people have starved to death in Africa last year, the other Nations have spent more of beauty aids and getting slimmer instead.

       While we slumber and linger watching T.V. standing at a bar for a beer, waging wars at the connivance of others, we have forgotten the words of a great philosopher who lived two thousand years ago, one whom we still honor but, have forgotten how to say "Thank you" to, for His gift to mankind.

      Now Global warming is a serious threat with no turning back. Wars, up to 34 co-Hort operation are going on at any one given moment, infections and disease are running wild, starvation is around the corner for the multitude. The younger generation is seeing this and taking our side and making it worse.

       We have to lay down our arms, turn them into the "Plow shares" as told, stop the infections and try and feed the hungry, or we're doomed.

Answer 5

Nuclear Apocalypse

The problem arises from the use of two digits to represent year data in many computer hardware and software implementations. In the early years of computer development and use, memory costs were high, and processing speed slow, so the use of two digit years (98) versus the full four digit year (1998) seemed like a good idea. It used less memory, which helped maintain acceptable processing speed, and introduced few anomalies at mid-century. Dates were typically represented by the six character date pattern (YYMMDD), and simple arithmetic could use the last two digits of the year, which worked fine as long as the computations did not extend into the next century.

When a computer determined a person's age, for example, it would subtract the two digit year of birth (example: 53 for 1953) from the current two digit date-year (98 for 1998), producing the correct solution (45 years). But, on 01 January 2000, the shortened date-year becomes 00. Now, however, the simple arithmetic process produces an age of minus 45, obviously an incorrect age.

Another date related computer process is date sequencing. The year 00 would incorrectly appear in the sequence of 00, 97, 98, 99. Faulty sequencing may mani-fest itself in a variety of ways, most of which are unknown and the subject of considerable speculation. Many implementations will treat the data at face value, canceling accounts or disposing of perishable products which are apparently dated to 1900 rather than 2000.

Answer 6

Human adherence to dogma and refusal to grow and evolve as a species, which if continued, will result in any or all of the scenarios that you have listed.

Answer 7

nuclear warfare

Answer 8

I think  human civilization is a bit of a paradox. As civil as we are, I think that human behavior will be the killer of civilization.