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 Let's consider then the obstacles that we are facing in the 21st century as a race, obstacles that will likely grow and become ever more insurmountable as we go on into the next century... Take for example terrorism. It would take only one act, one device with a high enough casualty list, to spark a war on the middle east so great in scale that nuclear weapons would almost certainly be used. Nature is fighting back for our past mistakes. Crops are failing. Bees are disappearing. The world is getting warmer. Oil is running out; it is the world's most precious resource and a major world war over energy can no longer be resigned to the realms of fiction. Relations between nuclear-capable nations are deteriorating. The most obvious example is the west and Russia. Are we heading for another cold war? The Balkans are coming apart at the seams. Turmoil in the region is what led to the First World War. We've already seen with the Georgian crisis that old quarrels still persist, and sides will inevitably be taken between countries that could blast each other into the stoneage. Whether this means the human race will cease to exist within 100 years is perhaps an exaggeration, but it seems increasingly likely that the next few decades is going to be very tough going for us as a race. |
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21-09-2008, 14:05
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ZOMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!11111oneone111!!!!
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21-09-2008, 14:09
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I think it's going to be dandy here on Earth for the next 100 years.
And if not? I'll move in with the man on the moon and survive on cheese. 
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21-09-2008, 14:12
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ZOMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!11111oneone111!!!!
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21-09-2008, 14:14
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To put a different spin on things..
At the same time that it appears there is more hostility in the world on a multinational scale, there is also much more collaboration between individuals and groups around the world. A united vision for space exploration, multi national research teams etc. In this respect, rather than looking at apparently more doom and gloom, I think there is actually an expanding continuum ranging from humanity's intolerance of each other to its ability to work united and break down barriers.. |
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21-09-2008, 14:25
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ZOMG WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!!!!11111oneone111!!!!
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21-09-2008, 14:27
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21-09-2008, 15:09
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Of course it can, we are amazing inventors and the current risks people whinge about.
Global warming, over population, lack of food, technological disasters (LHC causing a black hole that type of thing), in reality do not exist and certainly do not exist to the extent they will cause us anything more than niggling problems.
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