Extinction

[Lightkeeper]

There have been peoples and cultures before us that have become extinct. Are we headed for extinction and if so, what can we do to stop it?

 

[Green Gaia]

Of course we are, it's just a matter of when and if it will be by our own hand.

 

[Faust]

Sorry I'm being redundant again but I truly believe that if we do not evolve beyond religion as it is being practiced today,ie, My God is bigger than your God, I believe the whole human race is headed for hell in a handbasket. What can we do? One person at a time, modify the prime motivators in our system of belief and incorporate an inlarged tolerance of differing viewpoints. Give some value to others beliefs or non beliefs. Stop trying to impose our systems on others. But alas, I am a dreamer, I still can't give up on the message that I came out of the sixties and seventies with. (what I can remember of them, haha) And I must confess that I am guilty of an enlarged sense of importance where my personal viewpoints are concerned.

 

[Sunstone]

The sad thing is that from the standpoint of many of the other species on this Earth, it might be a good thing if we go extinct. We've been wiping out other species for at least 10,000 years now, and there seems to be no end to it in sight.

 

[Runt]

Eventually we have to go extinct. Even if we don't blow ourselves up or otherwise destroy ourselves, our end as a species eventually has to come. It may come when a meteor hits the planet. It may come when the sun goes supernova. It may come through some other disaster. Or it may occur much more subtally; perhaps a change in the human genome will occur, making some individuals something other homo sapiens, and for some reason or another only this new species will survive. (Genocide? A disaster that allows only those of this new species to live? Who knows?)

 

[patronkerr]

I have to agree with you guys. How long we have is anyone's idea. The world is changing all the time if you consider how different 'Empires' have come and gone. The Greeks, the Roman, and the Spanish who at one time ruled the world. The British had their turn. Now it is the good ol' USA.
The slow decline has already started with the USA. It seems that the general consensus points to Chinaas the next great power.
So it is with the world too, speaking from an overall point of view. Possibly 'religion' will be BIG problem of the future. Not Christianity, or Muslim or whatever but the whole convergence.
Once it was 'I'm right, you're wrong.' now it is 'I'm right, you're dead.'
Ponder on these things and good luck to you all.

 

[Doc]

I think many people are under the impression that since everyone hates us and wants us dead, we have to build up our weapons, take other's weapons, kill those who don't even persecute, and make ourselves supreme no matter what the aftermath. With this popular mentality, "World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones" Ponder that one too for a while!

 

[Quoth The Raven]

Everything passes.

 

[huajiro]

Just look at "man". We kill, we pollute, we consume, we destroy. Extinction is inevitable. If we find a way off this planet, any intelligent beings would destroy us