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Overpopulation - especially in regards to lack of available or useful resources, less so in terms of space. Though life in places such as Tokyo are undoubtedly crowded and hectic, they show that many other cities around the world could hold a significantly larger population, though this feeds back into the resources problem of providing the materials and infrastructure to house that many more people.
A solution to this is the controversial implementation of a lottery or test system by which Earth's population growth can be slowed so that when inevitable problems come around, it devastates less people and less resources are consumed. Of course not everyone is going to like this, but even if the world doesn't go to hell in a hand-basket, upping the production and efficiency of goods and services is still not going to cut it for a population as large as Earth's will become at its predicted rate. There will be at least a few wars raging at any particular moment, as nations fight to obtain or defend resources. As resources become so stretched, and human life so plentiful, the painful question of the true value of a human life will also come into question.

Fossil fuels will run low, and as the last, least-inaccessible reserves are desperately drilled into, fuel prices will skyrocket, and the sheer cost of owning a car will see many, many more people make use of public transport, carpooling, or simply walking or riding their bikes. When those last reserves dry up, though, something like 99% of Earth's transportation systems are rendered unusable. Needless to say, that will have a crushing effect on basically every economy on Earth.

Extreme weather patterns will become commonplace anywhere not near the equator - not necessarily things just becoming hotter, as many believe incorrectly. For example, the Australian state of Victoria had been in a state of severe drought for a decade, and now we've got massive floods sweeping across large areas of eastern Australia. Some think this is a sign global warming and climate change are false, but it is direct evidence for it: These floods are a once-in-a-century even, and the last time they occurred was definitely less than a hundred years ago. Coastal towns get washed away by rising sea levels, coastal cities become like Venice.

Eventually, when the polar ice caps melt, the dynamic that provides Earth's climate with warm and cold weather will slow down and eventually stop, and with no climatic heat being produced or maintained, things start to get very cold, only adding to the problems plaguing humanity for the years that preceded it.
 

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Overpopulation - especially in regards to lack of available or useful resources, less so in terms of space. Though life in places such as Tokyo are undoubtedly crowded and hectic, they show that many other cities around the world could hold a significantly larger population, though this feeds back into the resources problem of providing the materials and infrastructure to house that many more people.
A solution to this is the controversial implementation of a lottery or test system by which Earth's population growth can be slowed so that when inevitable problems come around, it devastates less people and less resources are consumed. Of course not everyone is going to like this, but even if the world doesn't go to hell in a hand-basket, upping the production and efficiency of goods and services is still not going to cut it for a population as large as Earth's will become at its predicted rate. There will be at least a few wars raging at any particular moment, as nations fight to obtain or defend resources. As resources become so stretched, and human life so plentiful, the painful question of the true value of a human life will also come into question.

Fossil fuels will run low, and as the last, least-inaccessible reserves are desperately drilled into, fuel prices will skyrocket, and the sheer cost of owning a car will see many, many more people make use of public transport, carpooling, or simply walking or riding their bikes. When those last reserves dry up, though, something like 99% of Earth's transportation systems are rendered unusable. Needless to say, that will have a crushing effect on basically every economy on Earth.

Extreme weather patterns will become commonplace anywhere not near the equator - not necessarily things just becoming hotter, as many believe incorrectly. For example, the Australian state of Victoria had been in a state of severe drought for a decade, and now we've got massive floods sweeping across large areas of eastern Australia. Some think this is a sign global warming and climate change are false, but it is direct evidence for it: These floods are a once-in-a-century even, and the last time they occurred was definitely less than a hundred years ago. Coastal towns get washed away by rising sea levels, coastal cities become like Venice.

Eventually, when the polar ice caps melt, the dynamic that provides Earth's climate with warm and cold weather will slow down and eventually stop, and with no climatic heat being produced or maintained, things start to get very cold, only adding to the problems plaguing humanity for the years that preceded it.

So instead of it getting hot it gets bloody cold.

Live underground much?
 
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I think Orion covered the points very well. Overpopulation, pollution and weather patterns will slowly change are some pretty key points.

If we don't find a way to come together as a species to figure out a way to tackle these problems, we'll just keep doing the same shit. I do believe there are things that humans do (pollute, neglect Earth, etc) which can be solved and reversed. If only it didn't involve some of the biggest industries in the world (oil for example).
 

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tl;dw space exploration is important, yo

Ha yeah It is because we could find a way to maintain a human biological habitat where we could live but it could be expensive and over the line. So either we fix the pollution problems or we try life on different planets. Religion as I've said before could be a disaster because people may just find out their god is not real and possibly commit suicide in attempt to prove them wrong or to be with family members,
 

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Ha yeah It is because we could find a way to maintain a human biological habitat where we could live but it could be expensive and over the line. So either we fix the pollution problems or we try life on different planets.
We're going to run out of space to live and resources to use on Earth, regardless of how much we curb or reverse the effects of pollution. We need the area and materials that other worlds will give us as adopted homes.
Religion as I've said before could be a disaster because people may just find out their god is not real and possibly commit suicide in attempt to prove them wrong or to be with family members,
Where the hell did this come from?
 

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He should incorporate that post into his fanfiction. Since it's already a masterpiece.

Anyway, I believe we will begin cracking planets for resources, similar to what happened in Dead Space minus the necromorph/Unitology stuff.
 

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He should incorporate that post into his fanfiction. Since it's already a masterpiece.

Anyway, I believe we will begin cracking planets for resources, similar to what happened in Dead Space minus the necromorph/Unitology stuff.

We're going to have to anyway. As Orion stated before, Earth itself has a limited run on its resources, not to mention that in 5 billion years or so, the star we call the Sun will become a Red Giant, and engulf Mercury and Venus, and turn our little blue-green world into a desolate, burning wasteland.

So the human race'll have to move somewhere else..
 

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Till 2012 betrayus 2012 or so I think because some people call the doomsday for serval reasons I could care less about so suck your dick till then and hide in corners

2012 was pushed back to 2036, when a space-rock hits the Pacific Ocean and causes a giant tidal wave tsunami and engulfs any landmasses in the area.
 

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How long do we have before we absolutely have to travel to another world to search for resources?
Less than five billion years. The surface of our planet will be scorched beyond even safe, contained habitation well before the dying sun expands to its full size.
 

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Why aren`t you banned ?

No, ask first "Why he hasn't been banned yet?"

For,
'One who knows nothing can understand [youguessedit] nothing.'

And remember, this is the Internet - one cannot take such small things as personal. Trust me, I've read worse.

So we freeze to death or live underground - time to dig to China.
 
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