Fact: A recent world census shows that the world's population is declining. It is due to many factors because of the decrease in birthrate, incurable diseases, accidents and natural death. Africa was also hit hard with the AIDS/HIV virus which seems to be spinning out of control at the moment, however, the birthrate is also multiplying faster than the lives taken by AIDS. Developed countries in Europe will have a huge decline, due to their low birthrate. The United States will be the only developed country to increase in population because of immigration, birthrates and increase in lifespan. India will be expected to become more heavily populated than China(which will be a world record once that happens). The estimated time period that this is supposed to happen will be in my lifetime: 2050. Past that, who knows? Can humanity be saved?
The pessismistic outlook: the population will increase no matter what. Under-developed countries simply lack the education, resources, and power to maintain control. Eventually, most of the world's rainforests will be cut down and if we don't find a solution to global warming, then once again there will be mass extinctions. Weather patterns will change, oxygen will slowly be depleted, resources will run out, the glacers will melt, land will be swollowed up by ocean, civil wars will break out, chaos will reign and human kindness will vanish.
Even with all of the human ingenuity, kindness, faith of religion, and strive for survival, in the end, we lose... and another form of life will claim dominance in the cycle of evolution.
A movie on the discovery channel(I can't remember what it was) predicted that squid or octopus will evolve after the human race, but that is just a theory...
An optomistic outlook of the worlds future is that the human race will(like nuclear roaches) be able to survive any change that we induce to ourselves. Biotechnology will enhance and extend life. Bionic limbs will replace missing ones. We will learn how to generate oxygen from one of our most abundant resources: "ocean water". We will develop technologies that rely less on mining the Earth for fossil fuels and other natural resources. Already, we have created materials that are stronger and lighter than steel and we have developed recycled objects that are more pliable than wood. Floating or underwater cities will be able to dodge and avoid natural disasters. Real estate will no longer be just land, maybe parts of the sky will be owned. Perhaps, we will step foot and explore other planets: maybe inhabit them and bring our water to Mars to make it more habitable. Science will open up the human genome and we will be able to eliminate inherited diseases and create a more evolved super-human. But this is also a theory...
Who knows? What do you think?
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My bet is on humanity. We will expand and grow, eventually colonizing the stars. Yeah, there are perils ahead, but don't sell mankind short.
People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years. They were wrong then, they are wrong now.
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