how many more years will people live on this earth?

Andy From Sligo

im 51 - in 30 years i will be 81 (good job i didnt skip maths lessons in school) - i suppose if i am healthy I wont mind living til around 85 or thereabouts.

But the way the world is going , what with global warming and floods and storms and wars and predictions about 'the end of the world is nigh' every so often (and looney Trump soon having control of 'the' button) - do you realistically think this world and the people that live on earth have another 30 or 40 years left in it?

cheerful old git arent I

maudgonner

Did you not hear? It's ending in August next year.

Andy From Sligo

maudgonner wrote: »

Did you not hear? It's ending in August next year.

reason being this time? ...

topmanamillion

I don't see any immediate threat that would cause the end of human habitation on earth.

War - there's always been war. There's a strong argument this is the safest time to be alive in human history, in the western world at least.

Gobal warming - while serious is reversible. The Ozone layer has partially repaired itself since the CFC ban in 89.

Trump and Clinton would follow in a long line of head case US presidents. The US overestimates it's influence on the world. Also US presidents have limited power. Obamas pet project was supposed to be Obama care, but without senate approval it died in the water.
Trump is playing to the gallery and if by some miracle he were elected, building a wall between America and Mexico would soon go to the wayside.

Insect Overlord

We're as resilient as rats or roaches. Small pockets will survive and thrive again. The in-breeding might make things weird eventually, I suppose.

justshane

I think fresh water problems will greatly reduce the amount of people able to live on our planet. I watched a documentary recently and apparently by 2050 40% of the works will be living with water restrictions.

Andy From Sligo

topmanamillion wrote: »

..... Also US presidents have limited power. Obamas pet project was supposed to be Obama care, but without senate approval it died in the water.
.....

you would think reaching a stage of president of a country that what you said would go - strange to think it had to go for approval still

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Dafuq do you be on at this time of night??

Andy From Sligo

LexieOnRale wrote: »

Dafuq do you be on at this time of night??

insomnia

Grayson

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

insomnia

Ditto.

Personally I think the worlds fecked. Humans will probably survive but it may just be a tiny fraction of the current population. Global warming is bad, it's really fcuking bad.

CruelCoin

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

im 51 - in 30 years i will be 81 (good job i didnt skip maths lessons in school) - i suppose if i am healthy I wont mind living til around 85 or thereabouts.

But the way the world is going , what with global warming and floods and storms and wars and predictions about 'the end of the world is nigh' every so often (and looney Trump soon having control of 'the' button) - do you realistically think this world and the people that live on earth have another 30 or 40 years left in it?

cheerful old git arent I

Global temperatures have risen something like 2c from pre-industrial levels?
Global populations have boomed in that time and short of the water rising marginally in a few places, there has been no serious threat to human life whatsoever.
Not an extinction threatening issue for a few centuries at least. The bangledeshis now, they may have an issue, but the rest of us? Be grand.

Speedwell

So far, humanity has managed to survive and overcome disasters of its own making and/or exacerbation... wars, plagues, bad agricultural practices, diseases of affluence and leisure, and so forth. We may not even get to worry about global warming if we don't come up with ways to deal with antibiotic resistance soon. I'm not a "technology will save us" type, but my money's still on technology. It would help, of course, if anti-science types got out of the fricking way.

OP, watch Cosmos with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
All will become clear, if you can keep up.

gramar

CruelCoin wrote: »

Global temperatures have risen something like 2c from pre-industrial levels?
Global populations have boomed in that time and short of the water rising marginally in a few places, there has been no serious threat to human life whatsoever.
Not an extinction threatening issue for a few centuries at least. The bangledeshis now, they may have an issue, but the rest of us? Be grand.

Are those bangledeshis anything to the kardashians?

My prediction is that everyone will live as many years as they are alive on this earth. Unless they die in space.

Sam Kade

Andy From Sligo wrote: »

im 51 - in 30 years i will be 81 (good job i didnt skip maths lessons in school) - i suppose if i am healthy I wont mind living til around 85 or thereabouts.

But the way the world is going , what with global warming and floods and storms and wars and predictions about 'the end of the world is nigh' every so often (and looney Trump soon having control of 'the' button) - do you realistically think this world and the people that live on earth have another 30 or 40 years left in it?

cheerful old git arent I

At 51 you are around long enough to know better. Floods, storms and wars all happened before and trump talks through his hole.

Sam Kade

justshane wrote: »

I think fresh water problems will greatly reduce the amount of people able to live on our planet. I watched a documentary recently and apparently by 2050 40% of the works will be living with water restrictions.

A documentary it must be true so, surely.