"Humans Are Doomed to Extinction" Topic

"Cast your mind back, if you will, to 1965, when Tom Lehrer recorded his live album That Was the Year That Was. Lehrer prefaced a song called "So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)" by saying that "if there's going to be any songs coming out of World War III, we'd better start writing them now." Another preoccupation of the 1960s, apart from nuclear annihilation, was overpopulation. Stanford University biologist Paul Ehrlich's book The Population Bomb was published in 1968, a year when the rate of world population growth was more than 2 percent—the highest in recorded history.

Half a century on, the threat of nuclear annihilation has lost its imminence. As for overpopulation, more than twice as many people live on the earth now as in 1968, and they do so (in very broad-brush terms) in greater comfort and affluence than anyone suspected. Although the population is still increasing, the rate of increase has halved since 1968. Current population predictions vary. But the general consensus is that it'll top out sometime midcentury and start to fall sharply. As soon as 2100, the global population size could be less than it is now. In most countries—including poorer ones—the birth rate is now well below the death rate. In some countries, the population will soon be half the current value. People are now becoming worried about underpopulation…"
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Armand

pfft. I'm surprised we've lasted this long.

Sun going to super nova anyway , so why last to the end

Yeah … we're all dead meat in the long run …☠

I plan to live forever!!

Species evolve over the long haul – look at dinosaurs, some of which seem to have evolved it birds

I look forward to the avian progression of the human race!

What a cheery lot we are this morning!

Grelber

Hey AOC said we only had 10 years left a year ago, due to global warming.

I am working on my long boat to put myself and all my worldly goods on and am working on a automatic fire arrow robot to shot the appropriate flaming arrows at the ship. Keeping the sword in my hand at all times is my biggest problem. Valhalla awaits. 😂🤣 🔥

My lead pile supports another 75-85 years of lasting life. Just keep adding and live forever.

(smile)

Armand

Finally, some good news on TMP!

Yea, I think we're now down to about 3 years left, or so, so party hard!!!!!

Ted Nugent claims you don't have to go……….

Loss of economic productivity and decrease in population from the 8 billion or so we have today, and depletion of the resources of the planet, are not relevant to extinction of the human species. Easy to imagine a lot of things which could kill a lot of people, and could make life miserable for a lot of people, but hard to imagine much that could make us extinct. We don't adapt to changing environments through mutation and natural selection, we adapt by controlling the environment around us. Kind of makes the arguments made by this paleontologist sound silly.

So what anyway ?????

Russ Dunaway

The cockroaches and crocodiles have done OK. I think their simple way of life gives them some advantages.

Hey ! I'm still alive !!!!!

I have heard that theory … hope it is correct !