Wher is the human race headed?

I can certainly see where you're coming from. It's frightening to think that the greediest people are the ones with their fingers over the big red buttons! Do you think a nuclear war would really mean the end of the human race? Things would certainly be a lot different afterward, but i hope against hope that there woould be a few survivors somewhere!

Thanks for the response. You haven't brough me down at all, just mirrored some of the thoughts I have already. I too, think that we are set for even more wars, natural disasters and plagues. It seems that human instinct is to spread, multiply and consume, but we simply cannot continue to do this on earth. I think that the only chance we have as a species is to colonise space. You're completely right about the survival skills though. I have no doubt that mass famine is increasingly likely. I'm actually a prime candidate. I come into my shiny building and type onto my computer / talk on my phone to earn my money, then I take it to the big shiny shops to buy things my family want and need. All it takes is for those shops to not have the food we need and there you have it - mass panic. The worrying thing is that here, and in most other places, the country doesn't have enough food to support the population without the intensive farming methods currently in use.

You have some good points. Humans are so detructive ourselves, we don't really need any outside threats. I like the 'galactic bingo' concept of a meteor. Geologists have found evidence of a handful of these catastrophic events over the milleniae. The usual effect is to smite life back down to a few species and let evolution take place over again. It could be a few million years away, or it could be next week, who knows!

Thanks for responding anyway Gabs. People are living longer, and having more children. That's the dilemma we're all in. There aren't enough resources to keep a population this big.