Will humans go extinct within 100 years?

[MOBIUS]

I saw James Lovelock speak at the Hay Festival last month and he basically said that we're heading for a catastrophic collapse as well with the unspoken part that, basically, the vast majority of the world's population will die if we continue as we are.

Not to mention everything that's been written on the subject of Limits to Growth.

The interesting thing is that, even now, we have probably got the technological ability to pull ourselves back from the brink, but the political will just isn't there.

What's happening to Blue Fin Tuna right now is a handy comparison...

[MikeH]

The whole population of the world will die at some point no matter what we do.

[Alexander's Horse]

I'm certainly expecting to be extinct in 100 years.

[MrFun]

I hope humans go extinct. Then I can have the whole world to myself - albeit of a lonely world, though . . .

[BeBMan]

Humans will not go extinct. Did you guys learn nothing from star trek or so?!? Of course we will evolve into omnipotent energy balls flying around everywhere in the universe.

[OzzyKP]

Humans are way too adaptive to go extinct over such changes. this is rubbish.

[Elok]

Yeah, I'm going to go with that too. We survived the bloody ice age with nothing but spears and leather, I think we can survive GW with modern technology. There may be ugly times ahead (and the poor parts of the world will bear the brunt, natch), but we're not going anywhere unless an asteroid hits, like Laz said.

[MrFun]

damn it

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If 99.999% of the population got wiped out we'd be down to about 65,000 people. If the mitochondrial evidence is to be believed, we bounced back from about 10,000 some 70,000 years ago.

[MrFun]

I can't remember to what extent anthropologists theorize the prehistoric population of Homo Sapiens fell to during the bottleneck period 10,000 years ago. But it definitely was frighteningly LOW.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

We're as adaptable as Brown Rats. We're staying.

[MrFun]

Wikiepedia is my friend. The info here says the Toba catastrophe, which triggered the bottleneck population of Homo Sapiens, happened about 70,000 years ago.

What I finid scary is that our ancestors may have been reduced to about 10,000 or even as low as 1,000 copulating pairs!

[ZEE]

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[MrFun]

my bad

[MOBIUS]

What I finid scary is that our ancestors may have been reduced to about 10,000 or even as low as 1,000 copulating pairs!

No wonder we bounced back so quickly if all we were doing was shagging!