In a few hundred years or more the people of earth will surely have faced the reality of today.  As a global society we all face the same problems and only a small portion of people see the immenent future.  The future where this world cannot keep heading in the same direction it has been for so long.  This is simply a question about whether or not the people of tommorow will wonder why we took advantage of nature to the point of ruining it and poisoning ourselves.  Isn't about time everyone especially the people with power took full advantage of todays technologies in order to restore the most important thing to our existence...the planet.
205082
hey thanks for the answer/question ha ha\nNo but i really think they'll think wow those people really screwed us. Because the future will have to deal with all these enviormental and political issues. And hey who cares right now? Well I'll tell you who the future our children and grand children so suck it up and be good to mother nature!
412691
Our home is headed for ruination. All the reports including one i saw on the news today regarding the fish stocks in the sea needing to be protected from commercial fishing , fossil fuels like gas, oil,  climate change, deforestation.  We will not make it past 2050 without radical change.\n         Revelation 11  v 17.
123783
I tend not to think so because the benefits of many advances are not likely to reach all of humanity, and although I dont consider myself a dooms-dayer the lack of foresight by scientist could create bigger problems than they fix. One example that alarms me is the genetic modification of corn, a wind pollinated crop. Genetic polution from these crops has accidentally spread to ancient and wild varieties of the species, and could threaten the genetic diversity that we will likely need for the future. various projects involving modifications to bacteria and viruses also have me concerned because of potential unforseen consequences.
421429
The earth is pretty resilient. Humans will cause great hardships on themselves, maybe even destroy themselves, before they change their ways. Whatever the outcome of human life, the earth will recover. We will colonize other planets if we survive ourselves.
62409
It is Global Warming.  Geologically speaking we are still coming out of the last ice age.  We are on in a natural cycle which has been accerated by pollution.
423815
It's our nature as human beings to be trapped in the perspective of our own tiny sliver of reality. Humanity as a whole has great difficulty stepping back and seeing the bigger picture.
590538
The earth will last a lot longer than we will. It will not be the same but it's the humans that will go crazy and kill each other when they can't get the necessities of life.
431533
Annie, the issue really doesn't appear to be if global changes are happening but why. The movie has some truths to it but the alarmist nature of the movie is a bit over the top in my view and that of many others who have seen it. No doubt we must do what we can within reason to stop adding to a problem, but we also have to be able to reasonably show that us making a change would have an effect and not make decisions in haste that will negatively affect other unless they will make a difference. Not good to go off running and shouting about the sky falling unless it really is falling.\n\n\nedit: I applaud you thinking for yourself in this matter. Gather all the information you can find, check it out and make up your own mind rather than just fall in line.
45693
I don't think we need to die out to protect nature.  Why? We're capable of making rational decisions and minimizing our harm.  It's just that we tend to refuse to do anything that inconviences us.  We need more emphasis on sexual education and birth control to stabilize the population, and politicies to mimize pollution and protect the remaining natural environments.
518509
I hope that in 5 billion years. We have somewhat evolved beyond this planet. Besides we won't have enough land or fossil fuels to last the next five hundred. I can hardly imagine five billion years from now.
327793
Global warming is a situation that ius no longer in mans control. Lets face the facts mother nature cant take it any more. The tornadoes in America are a starting sign that mother nature is starting to wear out and she can't hold on any longer.Possible measures are being taken but i presume that we might just have a little over 100 years then this planet goes from one beautiful blueberry into a an ice cold jawbreaker. Lets face the facts we are after all human and will go for the pleasures of life then sit and think about the future. Now i think is a good time to do that thinking part, but we are a little too obsessed with fast cars and like u have stated SUV'S.
40375
Humanity as an oppertunity to make this world wonderful and peaceful.  It is within our grasp and can be done.  Whether or not it is is entirely up to us.  But I don't think it will be done.  Too many people use things just to be hateful to others that aren't like them for it to happen any time soon.
274084
Everything today survives.\nAnd that is not the way nature intended it to be.\nWe keep sick people alive who normally wouldn't make it.\nWe keep children alive who would have died at birth and now are living breathing little vegetables.\nAnd that is supposed to be progress?\n\nOk,  I stop now.  I think you were looking for somewhat a different answer....smile
94864
It is from my past knowledge and literature review to tell you that Im not completly sure. However I do have a educated answer considering my college background and many years of knowlege in the academic field. \n  One thing that you have to realize is that the events that are happening now are just different versions of what has happened in the past, with the exception of global warming which I will explain later. This meaning that you have to look back at thousands of years of history to see that bad things, just as they are happening now, happened then just different in forms. For exsample the "Black Death" that occured in the 1300's that struck with such lethal force and killed more people in Europe than both world wars combined!!! Nothing of that magnitude has happened since. And exsamples like this are evident throughout history. Realize how contemporary out lives are; and that things are maybe the worse they have ever been , but they are really the worse they have ever beeen in our lifetime. As for the global warming thing, that is a problem but the rising temperatures and sea levels are also due the the obital patterns our earth is going through. Don't get me wrong global warming is greatly our fault, but sometimes we need to sit back and realize that this earth has been here for millions of years and every generation before us as thought the same thing you have. What happens, will happen but maybe you can rest easier knowing we are not the only civilization who has thought this.
331086
The difficulty is that technology only gives the power to change. It takes humans to decide which direction to change. Those that love power will use the technology to extend their power rather than to help others. There *have* been many advances made in the treatment of illnesses. Nobody today dies of smallpox. Nobody gets crippled by polio. Nobody goes deaf from mumps. Places with famines can get food shipped in to them.\n\nIn the past, if a crop failed (and this was common), people starved to death. Every place on earth was subject to this fear every year. Even the kings would have the fear of going without at times. Diseases were common and women died regularly in childbirth.\n\nSo, yes, there are diffciulties made by technology, but there are benefits also. The problem is people, not the technology.
601304
Not looking further into effects and what the results would be in the future. Not preparing for future generations who are the children of those here. Not taking in all issues-like environment-housing -health-food (the basics) into their future plans. Greed and selfishness of some. The uninformed who could not predict what would happen without knowledge.\n\n \nWonder what you and your friends came up with . Too bad we can't know.
438176
Society is evolving, some generations are getting better, some worse.\n\nOver time natural selection will take over, the people who do "better"  will continue, those who do not will fade away.