Will humans go extinct within 100 years?

[duke o' york]

We've got until 2050 to reach Alpha Centauri or conquer the planet!

Or were you hoping for a cultural win?

[ZEE]

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[duke o' york]

Engineers can clear up pollution, right....?

[Heraclitus]

We've got until 2050 to reach Alpha Centauri or conquer the planet!

Or were you hoping for a cultural win?

Well won't China (unless it collapses) win since it will have the highest score in 2050?

[SlowwHand]

Engineers can clear up pollution, right....?

Judging by the Gulf of Mexico, no.

[ricketyclik]

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.

How about a few gigatons worth of nuclear blasts?

[OzzyKP]

Well won't China (unless it collapses) win since it will have the highest score in 2050?

We have more wonders though.

[MrFun]

We've got until 2050 to reach Alpha Centauri or conquer the planet!

Or were you hoping for a cultural win?

culture FTW

[Elok]

How about a few gigatons worth of nuclear blasts?

Possible, but I can't imagine anybody would waste a nuke on Somalia, for example. Some of them would survive, as would Australian aborigines way the hell out in the desert, people in Nunavut, etc. Fallout can only cause so many problems. Albeit I don't know how plausible the supposed "nuclear winter" scenario would be...

[ricketyclik]

Possible, but I can't imagine anybody would waste a nuke on Somalia, for example. Some of them would survive, as would Australian aborigines way the hell out in the desert, people in Nunavut, etc. Fallout can only cause so many problems. Albeit I don't know how plausible the supposed "nuclear winter" scenario would be...

I was thinking of fallout being the 100% killer, not the blasts themselves or the winter (although that too has the potential, or so some would have me believe). I have no real basis for these fears, only hearsay and being raised on stories such as "On the Beach".

Nuclear holocaust has featured in my nightmares recurrently over the years - I have a nasty one every decade or so. My last one involved hearing a radio report saying there had been a major series of detonations in the northern hemisphere, and that we should all kill ourselves now to save ourselves the days of agony dying of radiation poisoning (similar to "On the Beach") and me and my wife trying to decide if we should kill my daughters or not.

[Dauphin]

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

Of all the people ever surveyed, the vast majority said that they had not yet died. I don't expect that statistic to change any time soon.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

I was thinking of fallout being the 100% killer, not the blasts themselves or the winter (although that too has the potential, or so some would have me believe). I have no real basis for these fears, only hearsay and being raised on stories such as "On the Beach".

Nuclear holocaust has featured in my nightmares recurrently over the years - I have a nasty one every decade or so. My last one involved hearing a radio report saying there had been a major series of detonations in the northern hemisphere, and that we should all kill ourselves now to save ourselves the days of agony dying of radiation poisoning (similar to "On the Beach") and me and my wife trying to decide if we should kill my daughters or not.

They've toned down a lot of the hysteria these days. The northern hemisphere could nuke itself silly and Australasia would barely notice.

[Kuciwalker]

Of all the people ever surveyed, the vast majority said that they had not yet died. I don't expect that statistic to change any time soon.

Yeah, it's really incomprehensible why people buy life insurance, given this.

[RGBVideo]

hahaha no

"climate change" became a joke around the same time it's name changed from "global warming" to "climate change", and overpopulation leads to more wars and more people dying off but wars because of overpopulation has nothing to do with extinction, quite the opposite in fact.

I was thinking of fallout being the 100% killer, not the blasts themselves or the winter (although that too has the potential, or so some would have me believe). I have no real basis for these fears, only hearsay and being raised on stories such as "On the Beach".

if you want to revise these fears, check out "The Day After" by ABC (1983), the most realistic (which is not saying much) nuclear holocaust film I've seen.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

If you really want to depress yourself, watch this- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/

"Threads". Made at the same time as "The Day After", and so relentlessly bleak that it traumatised a generation of British teenagers.