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Poll - what’s most likely to cause the human species to go extinct?

How do we end?

  • Nuclear annihilation

    Votes: 8 10.4%
  • Superbug (virus) man made or not

    Votes: 15 19.5%
  • Artificial General intelligence deciding we aren’t needed anymore

    Votes: 10 13.0%
  • Asteroid

    Votes: 7 9.1%
  • Earth’s core deciding it wants to be above ground

    Votes: 4 5.2%
  • Some happening in the universe we’re unaware can or will happen

    Votes: 6 7.8%
  • Climate change

    Votes: 4 5.2%
  • Your god deciding we’ve outstayed our welcome

    Votes: 23 29.9%

  • Total voters
    77
I love it when people talk about prepping or heading to the woods and surviving societal meltdown in general. Everybody seems to forget the times things like that have actually happened to developed nations.

Look at all the ugliness around ww1 and ww2 in eastern Europe. Look at the people who survived. You know what they were?

Extraordinarily lucky, for one. On the whole way more lucky than skilled or prepared. Luck plays a much greater role in our lives than we are comfortable admitting.

Two, they were likeable and capable. Not really at any one thing in particular. They were just good at realizing what had to be done and quickly getting good at it.

If you told me society was going to implode in 5 years, I don't know that I'd horde anything. I'd maybe lose a few pounds and spend as much time as possible making friends with all my neighbors.

And buy a box of rabbit feet.
 
Carrying capacity won't ever be reached naturally for humans. We'd need to ban all forms of birth control and destroy modern farming practices. Most developed countries birth rates are barely, if not below , replacement level as it is.
 
Might be closer to this, LOL…

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Carrying capacity won't ever be reached naturally for humans. We'd need to ban all forms of birth control and destroy modern farming practices. Most developed countries birth rates are barely, if not below , replacement level as it is.
Carrying capacity won't ever be reached naturally for humans. We'd need to ban all forms of birth control and destroy modern farming practices. Most developed countries birth rates are barely, if not below , replacement level as it is.

People keep saying birth rates are low, but I have 3 sisters who have 10 kids all together. 1 of the 3 has 5 and probably will be 6 before to long. Every couple around me and my wife's age are having kids except us.
 
People keep saying birth rates are low, but I have 3 sisters who have 10 kids all together. 1 of the 3 has 5 and probably will be 6 before to long. Every couple around me and my wife's age are having kids except us.

It's real brother. By 2100 the population of earth will likely start going down. That fact, by itself, is baffling from a species level view. Nothing besides our own unconscious self regulation will cause it. Kinda crazy to think about.
 
Per NPR

The number of babies born in the U.S. dropped by 4% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to a new federal report released Wednesday. The general fertility rate was 55.8 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, reaching yet another record low, according to the provisional data.

The statistical replacement rate is 2,100 births per 1,000 women. But in 2020, the U.S. total fertility rate fell to 1,637.5 births per 1,000 women. One year earlier, it was just over 1,700 births.
 
According to the most recent UN estimates (United Nations 2017), almost one half of the world’s population lives in countries with below replacement fertility (BRF), i.e. with a total fertility rate (TFR) below 2.1 births per woman. Of these, one-quarter have TFRs close to the replacement level, i.e. between 1.8 and 2.1; the other three-quarters have really low fertility, below 1.8 births per woman. Low-fertility countries are generally grouped into clusters. The main clusters are in East Asia, Southern Europe, the German-speaking countries of Western Europe, and all the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Table 1).



In fact, contemporary fertility around the globe is lower than it has ever been. Since the middle of the 20th century, childbearing has declined by 50 percent: 50 to 60 years ago women in developed and developing countries combined had on average 5 children, but now the world average is about 2.5 children per woman.
 
Per NPR

The number of babies born in the U.S. dropped by 4% in 2020 compared with the previous year, according to a new federal report released Wednesday. The general fertility rate was 55.8 births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 44, reaching yet another record low, according to the provisional data.

The statistical replacement rate is 2,100 births per 1,000 women. But in 2020, the U.S. total fertility rate fell to 1,637.5 births per 1,000 women. One year earlier, it was just over 1,700 births.
Eugenics...Fourth Reich of Nazi Robots...
 
but now the world average is about 2.5 children per woman.

That it should be. We need less people not more. Maybe that's me being selfish and if you're offended by my opinions I'm sorry. I've been driving trucks for over 12 years. The last 5 years being local/regional. Within that 5 years traffic has got worse in places where it use to not be so bad. I see land being demolished for subdivisions, huge warehouses, and storage facilities and it pisses me off. I get it people can buy land and do what they want with it, but when will it ever be enough? After all the land has been laid with pavement. I dont know much about statistics, I just look and see things always changing and growing.
 
According to the most recent UN estimates (United Nations 2017), almost one half of the world’s population lives in countries with below replacement fertility (BRF), i.e. with a total fertility rate (TFR) below 2.1 births per woman. Of these, one-quarter have TFRs close to the replacement level, i.e. between 1.8 and 2.1; the other three-quarters have really low fertility, below 1.8 births per woman. Low-fertility countries are generally grouped into clusters. The main clusters are in East Asia, Southern Europe, the German-speaking countries of Western Europe, and all the former socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (Table 1).



In fact, contemporary fertility around the globe is lower than it has ever been. Since the middle of the 20th century, childbearing has declined by 50 percent: 50 to 60 years ago women in developed and developing countries combined had on average 5 children, but now the world average is about 2.5 children per woman.

A big chunk of this is kids not dying at birth or shortly after. Another big chunk is promoting women into the work force. And finally plastic.

But if you want less people on the planet, you can control the last two. Make boys eat and drink out of and generally be exposed to plastic all the time. And incentivize as many women as you can to work, and to pursue positions of power and prestige in society. No more babies. Simple, really.
 
Depletion of natural resources leading to the destruction of the environment or potentially leading to nuclear war. As the most populous countries on earth, India and China are just getting started with their “industrial revolution” and the scramble for energy sources has already started.
 
Three mile island gave out what amounts to one chest x-ray worth of radiation. We need more nuculear(bush pronunciation) and proper containment wessels(Chekhov pronunciation) in the future, not less.
I don’t disagree from a clean energy standpoint. It outproduces solar, wind or hydro by a vast margin. It’s the disposal of waste that bothers me. You only have so many underground caves and bunkers to bury stuff in. I personally am hoping to see more tidal barrage energy plants. But I think hydrogen as a fuel source will be the clean energy solution of the future. When you burn hydrogen, the only biproduct is clean water… it gets my vote
 
I have no idea what the end will ultimately be, but pretty certain the cause will be Human`related.

I have to agree with you there. But do you think the Earth can recover from whatever it is that we will do? That given time (even millions of year) some form of society (human or otherwise) will remerged and renew the cycle. Or the earth become a dead planet?

Because I honestly do not see us becoming advance enough to conduct plausible space odyssey before its too late.
 
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