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Politics, politics, politics. This is exactly what will kill us all. It will be the prejudice and racism. It will be encouraged and pushed by the celebrity and political figures. They will lead us to war. Nothing is very balanced. People only want to help themselves. People could prevent this but both sides are selfish. So they are going to lead us to war and those of us who did not want it are going to be stuck in the cross fire. Some of us do not want war but you can bet there will be one. We have the right the left and the middle ground. All these so called communities are all going to ruin each other. Politics is such a touchy thing. People will always get rubbed the wrong way. People need to stop being so close minded. It has nothing to do with right or left. It has to do with the state of the world right now. Good business has no side. I am talking about all countries and all governments. We can not all get along. Though we really should be able to.
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I think we're underestimating how hard it is to kill off a species that has spread to almost every place on the face of the Earth. We have covered so much of it we have a word for the places we can't live that's more common than the word for the places we can live: inhabitable. We're hard to kill, we multiply well and we spread our eggs evenly across millions of baskets.
I would guess that a major environmental disaster, like if we just ignored global warming completely, could decrease us to about 50% of our population at most. Rising sea levels would change some of the major cities, but those in developed countries would have the wealth to move inland. Some people, like people who live in very hot or very cold locations would die if their ways of live were disrupted. Global life expectancy would decrease and disease caused by smog would increase. But humanity would definitely not be wiped out. Supervolcanic eruption would also wipe out a lot of people, but not everybody.
Nuclear war would not wipe us out either. Not everyone even died in Pripyat (the city close to the Chernobyl disaster), and that was dreadful, and not everyone died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki (some people were even effected by both bombs and still survived). But even if bombs hit every single patch of Earth and 99% of humanity was wiped out, it would be able to multiply from those remaining.
Disease is a possibility. I think a good, fast-acting, near-perfect disease could wipe out 99.9% of humanity. Humanity is too clever to allow it to wipe us out though. We'd have some people safe in bunkers; some of whom would be placed there by governments to keep humanity alive and some of whom would be lucky amateurs who had planned well.
Over-population would just cause population to decrease to a level at which we could continue again. As soon as enough people had died we'd be back to a normal, liveable population like we were before.
Alien invasion (although I think it's very unlikely) could do it, although I doubt the aliens would want to kill all of us. I think an asteroid could do it too, if it was huge enough (I mean bigger than the one that killed the reptilian dinosaurs - it would have to kill us almost instantly to stop us adapting to it). We can't defend against those things well enough.
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Europe doesn't have much of an over-population problem, in my opinion. I live here, I should know :P If you want to see an over-population problem, look at the poor cities in Mexico, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, China etc.
Anyway, over-population *cannot* make humanity extinct. It will just cause people to start dying until the population drops too as low as it was before people started dying.
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Just because you live there doesn't mean you know all about it. There are ignorant people everywhere. I don't mean to offend you. I've just seen that the little island of England and those little countries are WAAAAAAY overpopulated. I've been to...6 different countries there on a Music Ambassador trip and yes, I agree that certain areas of Europe aren't overpopulated, but where there are people it is kind of scary. Venice, Italy was the most populated area that I saw and I'm surprised that it hasn't sunk into the waters around it completely.
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I didn't say that overpopulation would kill people.
Overpopulation just causes the depletion of resources.
Mistreatment of the earth (cutting forests, drilling oil, etc.) will cause changes in the climate 'n' such. There are a lot of different things that could kill people.Demon dolphins?
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Oh, I'm so sorry. I wasn't aware your experience of Europe was so extensive and nuanced. You've been on a Music Ambassador trip, you must have a far greater knowledge than I do about the place I've lived my whole life.
The "tiny little island of England" is actually called Great Britain. England is just one of the 3 constituent countries that call island of Great Britain home, joined by Scotland and Wales. But I'm just ignorant, aren't I? :P
You confuse over-population with a high population density. Yes, both England and the island of Great Britain have a high population density. But for an area to be over-populated there must too much population for the people to survive comfortably because of the depletion of natural resources. And trust me, we survive very comfortably indeed (don't take my word for it - I've yet to come across a comprehensive measure of human development that doesn't rank us highly).
Sorry, I presumed that "sink into the ocean" was a metaphor for everyone dying. If you meant that literally the area would submerge... well, let's just say that isn't how it works.
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Lol.
Okay my friend, whatever you say.
You're completely misunderstanding me and I never wanted to argue with you. I never said I knew everything about your country, in fact, I'll say I don't know shit about it. I never called you ignorant--I said there are ignorant people everywhere. I'm not confused over anything. You're going off on me for no reason.
Also, the "tiny island of England" was sarcasm, you insufferable European.
And one more thing,
It's fucking obvious that the landform won't sink into the ocean. The question was what do you think will kill us all off. Not all of the answers here are totally serious. I don't consider myself amongst the serious ones.Comment Hidden ( show )
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