Human Race and Earth Endangered by New Strain

[table1349]

A giant cataclysmic event could solve the problem. thanks heavens we invented nuclear warheads to help the cause (you know, because we are smart and stuff). So just in case nature doesn't take care of it, we always got that big red button...

Sadly in a sense you are correct. If you look back at history some of the greatest progressions were made during and after times of great strife. A nuclear device no. But an encompassing world war could, 1 take the striain off the planet in terms of population at this point and 2 revive the world economies. Both things unfortunately happen after humans fight large encompassing wars that kill mass amounts of other humans.

Just so you are clear on this, I am not advocating for World War III. Just pointing out one of the consequences that seem to occur during and after times of great deadly conflict.

 

[tirediron]

I'm not convinced that we, as a people, are "smarter" now than we were thousands of years ago. We have higher technology sure, but we have only "discovered" in the last few centuries things that our ancestors "knew" 5 thousand plus years ago. This is especially true concerning mathematics and cosmology.

There are plenty of things we have a much better understanding of now, but I think at some point in our history, humanity suffered a major regression and we have been playing catch up ever since

And leave us not forget that today's fact is often tomorrow's fallacy. In the 15th century, scientists "knew" that the earth was the center of the universe. How many "facts" that we "know" today will be found to be utter hogwash in 50, 100 or 500 years into the future?

 

[bribrius]

A giant cataclysmic event could solve the problem. thanks heavens we invented nuclear warheads to help the cause (you know, because we are smart and stuff). So just in case nature doesn't take care of it, we always got that big red button...

Sadly in a sense you are correct. If you look back at history some of the greatest progressions were made during and after times of great strife. A nuclear device no. But an encompassing world war could, 1 take the striain off the planet in terms of population at this point and 2 revive the world economies. Both things unfortunately happen after humans fight large encompassing wars that kill mass amounts of other humans.

Just so you are clear on this, I am not advocating for World War III. Just pointing out one of the consequences that seem to occur during and after times of great deadly conflict.

well since science discovered all kinds of ways to save out lives, it had to come up with a equal amount of ways to kill us. Other wise balance would never be achieved. It is all part of the master plan. Since we evaded natural selection we had to make up our own version.
My major disappointment with science though. Is since they managed to figure out the world is round Not much has happened. They realized we are on a big floating rock. And the furthest they managed to get us is to another floating rock even smaller and worse than the one we are on. At the end of the day, we are still just on a floating rock with no where to go. They just figured out it was round.

 

[bribrius]

I'm not convinced that we, as a people, are "smarter" now than we were thousands of years ago. We have higher technology sure, but we have only "discovered" in the last few centuries things that our ancestors "knew" 5 thousand plus years ago. This is especially true concerning mathematics and cosmology.

There are plenty of things we have a much better understanding of now, but I think at some point in our history, humanity suffered a major regression and we have been playing catch up ever since

And leave us not forget that today's fact is often tomorrow's fallacy. In the 15th century, scientists "knew" that the earth was the center of the universe. How many "facts" that we "know" today will be found to be utter hogwash in 50, 100 or 500 years into the future?

well, they change their minds.

 

[bribrius]

A giant cataclysmic event could solve the problem. thanks heavens we invented nuclear warheads to help the cause (you know, because we are smart and stuff). So just in case nature doesn't take care of it, we always got that big red button...

Sadly in a sense you are correct. If you look back at history some of the greatest progressions were made during and after times of great strife. A nuclear device no. But an encompassing world war could, 1 take the striain off the planet in terms of population at this point and 2 revive the world economies. Both things unfortunately happen after humans fight large encompassing wars that kill mass amounts of other humans.

Just so you are clear on this, I am not advocating for World War III. Just pointing out one of the consequences that seem to occur during and after times of great deadly conflict.

Give it time, give it time. Put a overpopulation of animals in a cage with limited resources and supply the end result is never really good. That is kinda where we are going.

 

[bribrius]

Not saying you should go out and build noahs ark, because it would be more of a drought that caused the red button solution....
Maybe a volcanic eruption, anything for a natural cataclysmic event. Then the earth with laugh at us. That is usually when people suddenly become religious too. when they see everything around them falling apart. Suddenly religion seems like a good idea.

 

[Forkie]

if you take technology out of the equation (you know the plastic gizmos with chips), i am not sure we really have become more evolved.

The phrase "more evolved" has no meaning. It suggests evolution is linear and that one species is more evolved than another. They aren't.

 

[Designer]

I am not advocating for World War III.

We've surpassed that.

WWIII was the Cold War, and this supposed "War on Terror" is WWIV.

 

[Tinderbox (UK)]

Ok, off topic

If human beings can save the Earth from an, dino killer size asteroid, would all past environmental misdeeds be forgiven hypothetically and we can start again with a clean slate, as a whack from one of though`s things would virtually wipe out all life on Earth, a kind of rebalancing of the scales.

John.

 

[table1349]

Ok, off topic

If human beings can save the Earth from an, dino killer size asteroid, would all past environmental misdeeds be forgiven hypothetically and we can start again with a clean slate, as a whack from one of though`s things would virtually wipe out all life on Earth, a kind of rebalancing of the scales.

John.

You sound like an asteroid hit would be a bad thing. Humans are just the tetse fly on ass of the earth spreading their form of infection.

 

[table1349]

I am not advocating for World War III.

We've surpassed that.

WWIII was the Cold War, and this supposed "War on Terror" is WWIV.

Not even close. The Cold war was for the most part a war of words. It came no where near the 67 to 70 million people killed world wide driectly attributable to WWII. Hell even if you throw in Korea and Vietnam that encompassed only about 3.5 to 4 million people total over a span of 45 years.

The "War on Terror" is a Bushishm. Unless you have participated in a true war you can't appreciate the full magnitude of the whole thing.