will humans go extinct?
Eventually, certainly.
But will we go extinct in the next 100yrs?
Professor Frank Fenner thinks we will:
… in an interview with The Australian, the well-respected microbiologist expressed his pessimism for our future. “We’re going to become extinct,” he said. “Whatever we do now is too late.” …
I’m inclined to disagree. Even after reading The Road, a horror story of post-apocalyptic nuclear winter.
In the same article (forwarded me by Dave Adlard) …
In a paper published in the journal Futures last year, researchers approached the question: “Human Extinction: How Could It Happen?”
… “The human race is unlikely to become extinct without a combination of difficult, severe and catastrophic events,” Tobin Lopes, of the University of Colorado at Denver, said in an interview with Discovery News. He added that his team “were very surprised about how difficult it was to come up with plausible scenarios in which the entire human race would become extinct.” …
details on MSNBC – Will humans go extinct within 100 years?
The world might look like this “soon”. …
But some humans will survive.
