How Will the World End?


View Poll Results: How Will the World End?
Human industrial processes destroy the environment (Pollution) 17 21.52%
Crazy people unleash a deadly Virus (Politics) 12 15.19%
Earth is hit by an Asteroid and Blots out the Sun (Darkness) 12 15.19%
Other (Personal Beliefs) 10 12.66%
Red giant expansion of our Sun burns up the Earth (Fire) 10 12.66%
War (ilikecows) 9 11.39%
Someone Stumbles and Hits the Big Red Button by Accident (hergp) 7 8.86%
The Big Crunch (Science, Physics) 7 8.86%
The Mices will run out of Money for their Experiment and the Whole Planet will be Transformed into a Big Cookie. (zaxxon) 7 8.86%
Our Sun slowly dies and we freeze to death (Brrrrr) 6 7.59%
Overpopulation causing resources run out (ShouTenraku) 5 6.33%
Hungry Aliens come from Far Far Away and Eat Us (Sci Fi) 4 5.06%
Scientists trying to simulate a black hole will succeed. It will be as good as the real thing. (ni2) 2 2.53%
Zombie Apocalypse (bipinajith) 1 1.27%
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Old 08-24-2011
that's true, but much of it is undrinkable and needs to be purified, energy cost needs to be considered and not all countries can afford especially now with escalating price of fuel.

I read that in countries like China there is are huge water problems, due to rapid pace of urbanization water is being re-directed from elsewhere to feed cities resulting in many huge lakes being dried up, there are more cases of famines now in the countryside. China is throwing billions of dollars to try to solve the problem, if there is no solution there will be no China growth story.

India cities are also growing and much of the infrastructure is in dismal condition not as bad as china but in time it will be.

Global population is estimated to grow to 9 billion in 30 years time this is going to put a big strain on drinkable water and resources of which much are already tapped out, we humans are our own disaster in the making our own growth stories will become our undoing, we are eating, using our way into a rendezvous with destiny.
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Old 08-24-2011
The end of life as we know it doesn't mean the end of the human species.
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