Can we avert a global disaster?
474959
Yes, by making sure that everyone on Earth has a bunker with provisions to last as long as an asteroid impact winter, earthquake-proof walls, fallout-proof roofs, and anything else that you know the Earth cannot afford to provide 6,500,000,000 people. Lets face it, it is nearly impossible to prevent the unknown. People are going to die anyway. If one happens, lets help the survivors and find ways to somewhat reduce the death toll next time. If not, stay on alert. People will always be killed, no matter what preventions we have for the disasters.
415337
no because 'god' doesnt exist\n\nscience exists.\n\nthese disasters are only occurring because of global warming (will get worse)
732743
Heres an idea: Our world is becoming a more dangerous place as global warming continues.(Then speak a little more about the sentence, next paragraph =causes, next paragraph= effects, final=restate the first sentence) Good Luck!
884490
Excellent question. Not many people these days bother to question how to prevent or get to the root causes of problems.  The global economy will drive a global job market which will loosen our nationalistic concepts of borders.  In truth, that sequence is already in full swing and we are beginning to comprehend our problems as global, that everyone of us is connected and what hurts one nation of people ultimately hurts all of us.  A huge issue related to your question that really hasn't emerged yet, but, it will soon, is this:  Since the beginning of human history, we have immigrated for jobs and opportunity, for freedom and safety, to escape religious and political oppression, and to go somewhere fresh and unspoiled, perhaps as pilgrims, to carve out a little kingdom of our own away from lords and masters, away from the decay of failing civilizations.  For the very first time in all of our time on this planet, we no longer have a fresh, unspoiled, truly free place to go because of air travel and phones and satellite communication . . .and intercontinental missles. Civilization can now reach into whatever place we go to start afresh with our own visions.  Immigration has been our species pressure valve, or escape.  And, interesting, those who immigrate are the healthiest of the species in the long run, historically, in that they are usually escaping putrid social, spiritual and political decay.  What will happen to mankind now that there are no more wildernesses in which to start afresh?  What will happen when people who are disgusted with a place and there is no other place left any less disgusting to be?  What will happen when the average man or women no longer has a chance to create and enjoy a NEW society and it remains determined always by a dominate group's definition.  This worries me.
474323
I  am very concerned about global Warming, The east coast could be underwater and the northpole could be gone in as little as 50 years. Today's choices could have a dramatic effect on the future. yet NOTHING is being done :(.
487435
Yeah, I've also seen all these natural disasters. Even in my country, last year there were about 10 or more floods, and this year one or more. Cause? Global polution, tree cutting.\nSomebody save the earth! plz!
1119271
Tsunamis and earthquakes we can do nothing about. They are what we call "acts of God". We cannot control them. \n\nWhat we can control is how we behave when they occur. We can be compassionate. We can be understanding. We can open our hearts and hands and help.\n\nWe need to learn more about the world we live in. It is actually a big world despite the fact that the Internet and telephones and televisions connect us so easily. But when we are miles away from the earthquake, when it happens, or if we just cannot get there when a hurricane hits or a tsunami happens, then we can only watch in awesome desperation.\n\nThe world is still growing and changing. Just like people are growing and changing. We just haven't gotten to the point when we can be there to help the moment horrible things happen.\n\nIf we could, we would. No matter what country we are from.\n\nPeople basically want to help out and be a brother to a person across the world from them. Most of the time, they just do not know how to do that well.
436530
Have you ever heard the expression, "Don't put all your eggs in one basket"?  The same idea applies here.\n\nThere are any number of natural disasters that could destroy our way of life (meteor strike, multiple massive volcanic eruptions, a global plague, a nearby supernova), and they are virtually undetectable until immediately before they occur - even if we do detect them, the likelihood of preventing them is only a likelihood, not a certainty.
393381
How can we save humans from extinction.
340871
We can't stop hurricanes.  We can only find ways that bring human death and property damages are brought to a minimum.
720934
The Earth is in danger of becoming almost totally inhospitable for most higher life forms.  Unless we start being more intelligent and get population and resource management under control, the Earth will do if for us.
597044
No sense in trying to stop it. We as humans have pissed mother earth off big time and now she is protecting herself. The earth will out last us. We do things to the earth and think nothing of it, it can be as simple as someone throwing a cigarette out the window, what if everyone did that? what would it look like? I go to secluded lakes and find fishing line that birds and other animals can get caught in, 6 pack rings that are deadly to our wildlife, hooks an innocent person or animal could step on, booze bottles, trash everywhere, it is sickening and we are losing land every day. No respect for her why should she care what happens to us. The only way to stop global warming is to start respecting the earth and every living thing on it, we as humans have not grasped that simple concept, no it may not happen in my life time or even yours but doom is eminent unless we smarten up, we do not own the earth we are just fortunate enough to stay here. Sadly we are ignorant souls and don't give a hoot. How sad is that?
978481
Barring a nuclear winter or other catastrophic event, we'll still be around, polluting, smoking, and drinking.  Humans are pretty hardy creatures, and have lived through plagues, Ice Ages, etc.  While we are using our resources at an exponential rate, I do think this will necessitate some of the newer technologies already in the works.  We'll use fossil fuels until we can't any more, but there's always other forms of energy.  Right now, its too expense to implement mass change across the globe, but soon we won't have a choice, and I can't fathom that we as people (who have been around for hundreds of thousands of years) would suddenly fail to adapt.  That's what we were meant to do- to populate this planet.  \n\nSo no, unless a catastrophe of unheard-of magnitude strikes us, we'll still be around.  People for centuries have said the end times are upon us.  I'm still waiting....
708054
If we dont pull our fingers out and start doing the right thing surviving will be a definate struggle, I mean it is a struggle already for many people of the World.\nIt seems we are spiralling down the road of destruction but we can make a difference to change that.\nIt starts with us all.
435465
The Earth is already living on borrowed time. Consider this:\n\nWe're overdue for an E.L.E.* caused by an earth-crossing asteroid.  Geologic evidence point to massive bombardments every 12 million years or so, the last big hit was about 11-12 million years.  It is not only highly probable, but an astromonical surety that someday we will again face this threat. Few people realize how many close calls we have had in that last couple of decades.\n\nThen there's the threat of emerging pandemic viruses that might wipe out a great majority of mankind.  Or a disease which bould wipe out our crops or food and animals.  There is the threat of ecological disaster, which the geological records shows happens in cycles of hundreds of thousands of years. We may be plunged into another Ice Age or face massive global warming.\n\nAnd lets not forget the destruction we bring on ourselves from nuclear weapons.  Guess how many times since 1950 that we've been a hair's breath away from utter destruction?  False alarms and warnings, and tensions number around 20+, and these are just the public ones we know about.  Even in post-Cold War era there was that 1995 incident in Russia, and i could go on.\n\nMy point is, the Universe is a hostile place and we have only scratched the surface of how improbable our continued existence is, according to the odds.  We have beaten the odds, but probability has a way of catching uyp to you.
69114
I pray for true science positions resolving global warming, nothing is more important regarding this planet, it better not take ten years.\n\nBlubla
271561
we can spread the word but we can't save the world.