Are we doomed by our own destruction?

I don't want my kids to witness the end of the human race. Purely speculation of course but we ain't fixing what is broke are we.

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-deba...n-today-may-live-to-see-humanitys-end-unless/

Whats your view on this Halo?

I don't believe any of it, small glimmers of the truth in the article that's all, having said that I wont be around in a hundred years to be proved wrong

Good advertising by the Green party others may disagree

Link............Too negative for me to get passed a couple of lines............

I thought that the global warming lobby had been discredited.

I suppose its easy to say it isnt happening, it wont happen. It wont affect me. So that we can go on as nothing is happening.

I wonder what the future will hold for our offspring...

I see the pope is speaking up on climate change right now.

It is a negative outlook and you only have to walk past street preachers with a mere disinterested dismissal of their rants. Don't worry, we all do it because they spout out non-factual information but, more importantly, because we don't care nor have time. We don't care nor have time because it doesn't affect us does it?

No it doesn't affect us, its already been stated here. Maybe even if we were presented by guaranteed factual evidence by the brightest minds or the most powerful computers, would we be affected? No we wouldn't. Our world is cyclic by nature and that cyclic nature is an intrinsic part of us. We live for around 70+ years or so on average. Do you care what happens after your life finishes? Of course you hope your children, or your children's children have a happy and prosperous life. What about your children's children's children? You don't know them, you may well never know them. How long can you fear for a family you will never meet, even if blood related?

Let's make the assumption that the world is going to end with catastrophic effect in 100 or 200 years and if we changed our habits we could avoid catastrophe. I mean massive cuts in consumption of energy as the primary goal. Could we as a world do that? I don't think we would stand a chance. Would we even attempt it? No me thinks.

Do some people care not to engage in such a discussion out of fear, out of selfishness, ignorance or just don't give a hoots anyhow?

Its a very subjective topic and interestingly most people dismiss it, even me, until I wrote these words.

Will I think about it again? Yes but only in passing and only in passing because I'm an average human being who won't be affected!

Low batt na lang

I suspect the fullest impacts will be further downstream. But in the meantime I suspect that some of our species in some parts of the world will be at the sharp end sometime soon.

Ironically the Philippines is prime fodder for the effects.

Even if many on here will not be here in the more distant future, many of our wives and gfs will and they will see our offspring in later life and their quality of life.

On the Philippines:

http://wwf.org.ph/climate-solutions

Oss seems to think it is too late. I tend to think it isnt too late and the ship can be steered back on course. Notably its not the type of thing you want to say "I told you so" as the lessons learned will be harsh.

For the human race it is good that we cannot see what is in store for us in the distant future, at the absolute worst I can only see an all out nuclear war ending life as we know it in the West at least, even then the developing countries are unlikely to be affected, they will then become first world countries, the Philippines would then become the new USA

Did you ever read the book "On the Beach"?

Pray enlighten me

"On the Beach is a 1957 post-apocalyptic novel written by British-Australian author Nevil Shute after he emigrated to Australia. The novel details the experiences of a mixed group of people in Melbourne as they await the arrival of deadly radiation spreading towards them from the northern hemisphere following a nuclear war a year previously. As the radiation approaches each person deals with their impending death in different ways.

Shute's initial story appeared as a four-part series The Last Days on Earth in the London weekly periodical Sunday Graphic in April 1957. For the novel Shute expanded on the storyline. The story has been adapted twice as a film (in 1959 and 2000) and as a BBC radio broadcast in 2008."

Looks like the sort of film I would enjoy, I don't have the patience to read the book.

I better not put any long playing records on Jim you obviously think we are doomed

100 years into the future...

I hope that Mars project would be up and running by then. Sir Richard Branson, stop chasing skirts and get a move on!

Humanity needs you dear sir! Hahahahahha...

Good way of putting it.

There is a good you tube video on the perils of consuming fossilised sunshine too quickly. But havent been able to locate it. I posted it on here some time back. It sums up nicely why we are likely to hit the wall as you describe.

Found it. (I know you have seen it before Oss)


"This vitally important documentary examines the science behind how oil was created over billions of years and how it is being depleted in just over one hundred years. It also looks at the environmental consequences of oil depletion."



It is well over an hour long. But needs to be to get the ideas across. Carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons (oil and gas) and warm climates....its all there. Why is so much of the worlds oil in the middle east and much much more.

It is my opinion that we are still learning on this subject matter and rapidly and it wont be long before what we are hearing now, becomes widely accepted, the world over. Our collective understanding is improving fast. We have had the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and we are in the Oil Age. Will the next be the Green Age?

We are if we dont do something about it in good time.