UM-Bot Posted June 20, 2015 #1 Share Posted June 20, 2015 With species disappearing in their thousands our planet may be on the verge of a mass extinction event. Mass extinctions have occurred a total of five times in our planet's 4. 5 billion-year history. Some, such as the disappearance of the dinosaurs following an asteroid strike 65 million years ago, are particularly well known while others, such as the Late Devonian extinction, are not. Read More: http://www.unexplain...may-be-underway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seeder Posted June 20, 2015 #2 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Factor in of course the huge worldwide droughts predicted over the next 100 years, which will destroy many lives, crops, ecosystems, while bizarrely causing huge floods elsewhere, and the future isnt looking bright at all Last year was officially the hottest...worlwide, and 2015 is predicted to go same way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarMountainKid Posted June 20, 2015 #3 Share Posted June 20, 2015 This is why we haven't been visited by Aliens. The Great Filter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skep B Posted June 20, 2015 #4 Share Posted June 20, 2015 With species disappearing in their thousands our planet may be on the verge of a mass extinction event. Yeah? Good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted June 20, 2015 #5 Share Posted June 20, 2015 About time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted June 21, 2015 #6 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Of course we are in the middle of a mass extinction. The more people the less room for the wildlife, trees and prairies where they live. Then we keep polluting the air which is causing the planet to warm which will wipe out more species. Then there is so many people they will start starving. We will go back to the stone age. Then sometime in the future if enough people survive it will happen all over again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XenoFish Posted June 21, 2015 #7 Share Posted June 21, 2015 When and if we start thinning out, then that might good be a good thing. Sad but a good thing. With the scarceness of resources people will fight, this will lead to a lot of death. Thinning the number of people on the planet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundew Posted June 21, 2015 #8 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I fear that in the unlikely event wisdom does not prevail to stop man's degradation of the Earth, plague, famine and disease may instead. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigjonalien Posted June 21, 2015 #9 Share Posted June 21, 2015 robots will evolve Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YoshiYoshi Posted June 21, 2015 #10 Share Posted June 21, 2015 What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted June 22, 2015 #11 Share Posted June 22, 2015 They found a lot of whales dead up around Alaska. Maybe we are in the beginning of a mass extinction. Look how often this happens anymore with whales and dolphins. Bet it has something to do with too many people, pollution, global warming. http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fin-whales-found-dead-alaska-island-31874228 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug1029 Posted June 22, 2015 #12 Share Posted June 22, 2015 I fear that in the unlikely event wisdom does not prevail to stop man's degradation of the Earth, plague, famine and disease may instead. Disease has always been the limiting factor on human population growth. It's even bigger than war and reduces population with less environmental damage. BUT: the last disease intense enough to actually reduce human populations was the Black Death. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc Socks Junior Posted June 22, 2015 #13 Share Posted June 22, 2015 The Spanish Flu was bad too. Not as devastating percentage wise though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MeOnlyMe Posted June 22, 2015 #14 Share Posted June 22, 2015 (edited) Scary stuff, you would think that society would be spending money on things like this instead of like... War? Anyone who starts war or allows crime via presidential order should be held for criminal charges. NATO police. Edited June 22, 2015 by MeOnlyMe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Athena1979 Posted June 22, 2015 #15 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Human over population causing less places for animals? Have you been to Montana? How about Colorado? Wyoming, Iowa, Texas, Alaska? There are still many wide open spaces out there where you don't see another human being for at least 100 miles in any direction. Let's not hyperventilate on another climate change scare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFO_Monster Posted June 23, 2015 #16 Share Posted June 23, 2015 (edited) Human over population causing less places for animals? Have you been to Montana? How about Colorado? Wyoming, Iowa, Texas, Alaska? There are still many wide open spaces out there where you don't see another human being for at least 100 miles in any direction. Let's not hyperventilate on another climate change scare. That's not the point... All it will take is several animals to go extinct. Then ecosystems will be thrown into chaos. The honey bee is especially not doing well right now. If that goes, we all go. Edited June 23, 2015 by UFO_Monster 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Varelse Posted June 23, 2015 #17 Share Posted June 23, 2015 Human over population causing less places for animals? Have you been to Montana? How about Colorado? Wyoming, Iowa, Texas, Alaska? There are still many wide open spaces out there where you don't see another human being for at least 100 miles in any direction. Let's not hyperventilate on another climate change scare. I live in Iowa. Every square inch that isn't being used for food production is either trees or houses. And there aren't that many trees. But it's not so much about the open spaces as it will be about the lack of resources. It's about clean water. It's about the weather needed in places where the soil is good to continue producing the food needed to feed everyone. Personally I'm not scared, I'll be dead before it really hits the fan and I have no kids. But ignoring the issue will bring an end to civilization as we know it. Too many people have a vested interest to stick their head in the sand. In an indirect way I think ignoring climate change is child abuse. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashotep Posted July 7, 2015 #18 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Disease has always been the limiting factor on human population growth. It's even bigger than war and reduces population with less environmental damage. BUT: the last disease intense enough to actually reduce human populations was the Black Death. Doug Modern medicine has reduced the number of deaths for now anyway. One day something will come along that will spread easily and kill half the people it infects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zalmoxis Posted July 7, 2015 #19 Share Posted July 7, 2015 I think that if an extinction begins within our lifetimes and it is slow enough for us to watch it progress then there will definitely be some subterranean bases that the more wealthy members of our species will run to and hide with their survival supplies and wait out whatever disaster it is that is threatening the life on our planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Br Cornelius Posted July 7, 2015 #20 Share Posted July 7, 2015 I think that if an extinction begins within our lifetimes and it is slow enough for us to watch it progress then there will definitely be some subterranean bases that the more wealthy members of our species will run to and hide with their survival supplies and wait out whatever disaster it is that is threatening the life on our planet. It has already begun. Loss of 40% of total biodiversity since the 1980's. Nearly half the damage it previously took us to achieve in 8 thousand years in less than 50. Its debatable whether anyone will be able to survive when it all plays out, regardless of their preparedness. Br Cornelius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug1029 Posted July 7, 2015 #21 Share Posted July 7, 2015 Modern medicine has reduced the number of deaths for now anyway. One day something will come along that will spread easily and kill half the people it infects. We can thank public health campaigns for most of the reduction in disease. It really helps if your drinking water is not contaminated by cholera. Medicine concentrates on curing the sick: public health concentrates on keeping people from getting sick in the first place. There are still some possible diseases like a new variant of bird flu that could do it. Or maybe something we don't even know about. Ebola was a bust. There are still new cases showing up in Africa every day, but the worst of the epidemic has passed. While survival confers immunity from future attack, it comes with a legacy of joint pain and other symptoms. Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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