"The trajectory that our species takes(in the future)

[iwanttodie019]

in the next hundreds/thousands of years"

IS EXTINCTION

(when humanity realises existence is futile.
You cannot fight entropy)

 

[Forever Sleep]

I reckon the effects of climate change will destroy us before we decide to stop breeding. Although, one may inform the other. Trends in anti-natilism may well rise when everywhere starts to look like hell.

 

[darksouls]

humanity is too ignorant to see the hell it has created

 

[Macedonian1987]

humanity is too ignorant to see the hell it has created

I completely agree with you. It's amazing (in a bad way) that so many people don't see the inevitable destruction of the human race because of the climate damage we have inflicted upon this planet.

 

[itsgone2]

existence does seem futile. I'm not sure why I'm here. This is all pointless.

 

[darksouls]

most people are happy when they can fuck every day

 

[heywey]

To be honest I don't think humans are likely to go extinct from climate change any time soon. We're at one of the coldest points in Earth's history right now, with a global average of ~60f / ~15c -- but even at the warmest points in history, where the global average was something like ~80f / ~27c and most of the earth would have been completely uninhabitable for humans, the poles didn't get above ~70f / ~20c in summers.

Society and industry as we know it would likely collapse by the time we hit a ~7f / ~4c increase in global average, so that gives at minimum a ~13f / ~8c runway without major human interference for the climate to steady itself, which it's done in the past. Of course, at that point we'd probably be reduced to scattered tribes across Greenland and Antarctica. Who knows if an industrial revolution would ever happen again. But there would be enough land and resources for subsistence living.

For better or for worse I think humans will probably be around until whatever tipping point where complex life as a whole gets killed off. Which kinda sucks, since we fill niches that other, potentially less terrible species could evolve to fill in the future. Humans only came around because the dinosaurs (mostly) died out after all, who knows what neat species could come after us if we made room.

 

[DarkRange55]

One idea I've found interesting in the astrophysics community regarding SETI is that advanced civilizations just warp into another universe.

 

[suicidesergal]

Entropy is a suggestion. Not a rule. A lot of people seem so negative, who would have thought in a suicide forum?

A thousand years is nothing. To a hundred thousand. Humans, after all, are about 300,000 years old.