The World Is Ending

A scientist tells us that by 2043 there will be a staggering 48 billion people trying to live on Earth. With previous wars, current battles; brutal protests against governments; natural disasters; nuclear weaponry being produced with only destruction in mind – less and less of our planet will become habitable for human and animal life.

Even though population growth has not been perfectly exponential everywhere on the planet, it has definitely exploded and continues still to grow.

30 odd years ago there were those few people who saw the trend and said “well shit we should really do something about this” and worked to diffuse this population bomb; But today that bomb has exploded and there are still millions skipping around as if this were not a world-wide crisis.

Complex animal life began some 500 million years ago and since then, us Homo Sapiens have exploded out of a confined ecosystem and evolved into an incredibly varied species with immense powers to rapidly change our planet; the world we live in.

And not always for the best.
The consequences for our growth in technology and general way of life are disastrous and makes most sensible thinking people pee their pants a little.

Through agricultural advances we have abused land and therefore lose the productivity of that land ending in famine. We have mutilated animal species to meet the needs of our fast consumerism harming the natural wild ecosystem forming extinction in key species! Then there are the depletion of natural recourses with conflicts over finding new sources and where they are found.

We are visibly crippling Earth’s natural biodiversity and continue to every minute of the day.

I’m going to steer away from what we are doing to our planet and it’s wildlife for just a moment and give you a little info on probabilities in HUMAN EXTINCTION.

Institutions and individuals have been researching what the probable causes of human extinction could be. Natural disasters such as the frequency of a volcano with a sufficient magnitude that causes climatal change has been estimated with the risk of about 1 every 50,000 years.

Hmm.

In 2008 a group of experts in global catastrophic risks at the aptly named Global Catastrophic Risk Conference at the University of Oxford suggested a 19% chance of human extinction over the next century. One of the highest scored risks they recorded at 5% were molecular nanotechnology weapons. They are those little tiny sometimes flying robots so small they are naked to the human eye that you read about in Micheal Crichtons sci-fi book called Prey. A natural pandemic sits all the way down the list on just 0.5%.

While we read all this information and have anxiety attacks, there are definitely a lot of challenges in recording and estimating accurate existential risks however and we must keep this in mind.

In my eyes actually being able to reduce the population is a lost concept and most minds are on where do we go to next to draw out the human existence to trillions rather than billions of years. One scientist argues that there is great potential in colonizing space. Outer-space guys!

Anyway, with all that said I feel that with the global warming caused by human technologies since the 19th century effecting as we all know (those of us who know better than Tony Abbott) the Earth’s natural climate causing the ecological disasters as stated earlier; basically while the Earth’s natural resources run out and we say goodbye to our western honeybee; in that the quest for knowledge humanity will create a device that destroys the Earth and our solar system; Biotechnology that leads to the creation of a Pandemic; Nanotechnology leading to the grey goo scenario in which out-of-control robots consume all living matter on earth while building more of themselves; all this either deliberately or by accident.

Basically we are doomed!
In the end though we can’t let these things get to us. Do your part to stave off the extinction of every living thing on Earth by living sustainably, happy and not only giving your family and friends love but the ground you walk on and live off. You don’t have to be a hippy to care.