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Asked by xxicreamlordxx to David, Luna, Mark, Melanie, Probash on 17 Mar 2011 in Categories: General.
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Luna Munoz answered on 16 Mar 2011:
No one knows. We certainly have the power to last a long time, but we also have the power to end things for us very quickly. I tend to think that the world will last and that we will learn to be more responsible. Naiive? Maybe.
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David Pyle answered on 16 Mar 2011:
If by ‘world’ you mean human society as we know it today, then I think that its fair to say that it’s in a fragile state, and the next couple of centuries will be quite a challenge with population growth, energy and resource limitations and increasingly complex global inter-dependencies. Climate change and its consequences (changes in water supply, changing frequencies and intensities of wind and rain storms), will add another layer of complexity to this.
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Mark Vesey answered on 17 Mar 2011:
No-one can really answe that, we need to take care of the world as best we can for future generations and always consider future consequences of our actions and decisions.
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Melanie Stefan answered on 17 Mar 2011:
It depends what you mean by “the world”. The planet earth can take a lot of stuff, even global warming, but human civilisation might not. Given how many species have become extinct due to human action, I think it’s entirely possible that we destroy ourselves at some point. But I really don’t know. With the human race gone, I think life on earth will persist after that – some life forms are really amazing at adapting to difficult conditions (did you know that there is a microorganism that lives in the cooling water of nuclear power plants? How cool is that?) At some point though (about 10 billion years from now) the sun will become a red giant, and that will be it for planet earth. I don’t know about the rest of the universe.
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