Is there any hope for the human race?

[Begbie]

I'm just glad I don't have kids to worry about.

Between climate change, automation and growing wealth divide, I'm not optimistic on our future prospects.

At least when you only have to worry about yourself it's easy to blow off

You must mention this in every doom thread. I really do feel sorry for people, and sorry to highlight yourself here, with this doom mindset.

But what a number media/whatever is doing to people's heads if these are truely reasons it's stopping people having children.

 

[Chris Wilson]

You must mention this in every doom thread. I really do feel sorry for people, and sorry to highlight yourself here, with this doom mindset.

But what a number media/whatever is doing to people's heads if these are truely reasons it's stopping people having children.

Quite, plus if the worst really comes to the worst and some sort of Armageddon strikes, you could eat them

 

[FoxEye]

I can't believe people worry about this. Humans have billions of years left.

Absolutely wild to think otherwise.

Curious to know how you are so certain of this?

 

[Uther]

Just live your life the best you can. Not much you can do about what the rest of the world is doing, except be depressed, which doesn't help really.
24 hour news and the internet doesn't really help.When I was younger all me and my mates cared about was motorbikes, booze, and women, and I'm sure we were much happier for it, rather than being glued to the internet for hours on end watching the latest horror unfold somewhere in the world.

 

[Ayahuasca]

Problem is people are terminally online nowadays and some spend their whole day living their life vicariously through the likes of Twitter.

If I was constantly feeding myself imagery of war and heinous acts, I’d feel pretty hopeless about the human race as well.

 

[bazzastan]

We will wipe ourselves out best thing for the planet

 

[dave28]

the muck has not hit the fan yet, we will see what happens with a large scale war breaks out with nuclear nations or a virus far worse than covid with a considerably higher kill rate and fast mutation

 

[Tuppy_Glossop]

Best open a bottle of red, then.

 

[Mysterae_]

Of course there's hope, there has to be. You just have to create it yourself despite other factors clouding the vision or blocking the path. People have just been looking in the wrong places.

Things will all boil down eventually to a common ground where there will be nothing to fight over but it's going to take a long time to get there. Forgetting about religion would be a good start, like the Gene Roddenberry quote when asked why there wasn't any religion in Star Trek, he replied "because it's based in the future".

 

[Tombstone]

Forgetting about religion would be a good start, like the Gene Roddenberry quote when asked why there wasn't any religion in Star Trek, he replied "because it's based in the future".

Thats long been my belief too, religion has done a lot of good in places but also a quite phenomenal amount of horror has been done in the name of religion.

 

[Efour]

Yes

 

[413x]

You must mention this in every doom thread. I really do feel sorry for people, and sorry to highlight yourself here, with this doom mindset.

But what a number media/whatever is doing to people's heads if these are truely reasons it's stopping people having children.

It actually doesn't bother me.
I'd be worried if i have kids. But I don't. And I don't have any because I don't want any. Not because I'm scared of the world they'll inherit

I feel this is quite lucky as it means even though I think our standard of living for the average person is going down, it probably won't affect me. I'll be gone by time it ramps up.. If it does.



I actually think I'm more intrigued by what will happen with advanced technology. Personally I think it will create a bigger and bigger divide between rich and poor. But it is possible it will make the world better.

There are So many what ifs
-will we invent a new piece of tech that's provides unlimited energy (ie fusion)
or
-will we run out of fossil fuels and collapse as a society

-will we cure cancer?
or
-will be create something that makes covid look like a walk in the park

-will we invent an actual amazing vr world where people can live and enjoy life (ie severely disabled)
or
-will social media/automation turn us into mindless zombies with no purpose or use and we just fade out


There are many scenarios due to unforseen tech. At the moment I think we are sliding the wrong way in too many aspects.

 

[ubersonic]

I've read enough GD posts to know the answer to the title is no.

Mate, what the hell have you been smoking? It's quite obviously a queen wasp.

 

[Bobmunkhouse]

Yawn

Just get on with life, enjoy the company of your loved ones and make the most of whats available to you.
Or..
Be a massive cry baby and spend your life worrying about anything and everything and make your life as miserable as possible and be forever unhappy.
Decisions decisions..

Solid work, and on your death bed you can just say to your grandchildren, "Sorry the crops are failing and your homes are flooded, I was having a nice time and I just could not be asked to care..." Then just yawn, roll over and die....

 

[Efour]

This sounds like a poor people problems thread?

 

[Begbie]

Curious to know how you are so certain of this?

History. Humans crave survival. We will easily survive, I see no reason for us not to.

It actually doesn't bother me.
I'd be worried if i have kids. But I don't. And I don't have any because I don't want any. Not because I'm scared of the world they'll inherit

I feel this is quite lucky as it means even though I think our standard of living for the average person is going down, it probably won't affect me. I'll be gone by time it ramps up.. If it does.



I actually think I'm more intrigued by what will happen with advanced technology. Personally I think it will create a bigger and bigger divide between rich and poor. But it is possible it will make the world better.

There are So many what ifs
-will we invent a new piece of tech that's provides unlimited energy (ie fusion)
or
-will we run out of fossil fuels and collapse as a society

-will we cure cancer?
or
-will be create something that makes covid look like a walk in the park

-will we invent an actual amazing vr world where people can live and enjoy life (ie severely disabled)
or
-will social media/automation turn us into mindless zombies with no purpose or use and we just fade out


There are many scenarios due to unforseen tech. At the moment I think we are sliding the wrong way in too many aspects.

Fair enough, you just mention that you don't want kids about 5 times a week. I hope you don't end up regretting it, I have.

I disagree, I think it's all scaremongering. We may go down poor life choices as a species, but we also manage to get out of it. Worst comes to the worst we have a reset and try again.

 

[SPG]

The world will change when we crack Fusion only a matter of 50 years..

People need to stop believing the media narrative of doom doom.

 

[Rroff]

the muck has not hit the fan yet, we will see what happens with a large scale war breaks out with nuclear nations or a virus far worse than covid with a considerably higher kill rate and fast mutation

IMO if something was to happen such as a large scale natural disaster hit the US the world would eat itself quicker than people can possibly imagine and the order of things as people imagine it to be wouldn't stand up to those circumstances.

People are forgetting the need to "preserve the heart" of the way of life we take for granted.

 

[SPG]

Europe was doing just fine before WW2. It would again.

 

[nightwish]

Curious to know how you are so certain of this?

I think it's a maths fail honestly. Millions - I would have raised an eyebrow. Billions - I just think the poster has no concept of how long a billion years actually is, or what can happen in that kind of time