[randd1]

Countries will be destroyed, Political entities will be destroyed and Religions will be destroyed. Human Civilization in any form will be destroyed.

But humanity, as a species will survive anything except the end of the earth through natural occurance or genocidal aliens (who, as you would expect, would have superior technology).

Nature, and the global eco-system is a balance. If the human population becomes to great and damages the eco-system with excess pollution and the extinction of species, then its fair to assume things that rely on nature to sustain us with, like food and water, would become scarce and that a lot of people will die as a result of these shortages.

But nature has an uncanny knack for balance and if we harm ourselves, through whatever means, the planet will remain and eventually recover. And the humans that survive will continue on.

[SuperInfinity]

Originally Posted by randd1

But humanity, as a species will survive anything except the end of the earth through natural occurance or genocidal aliens (who, as you would expect, would have superior technology).

The only thing humans have to fear is their own technology. For example designer babies, which will start on a trend where the offspring taller and with a bigger brain and with more charisma and look more pleasing to the eye and need less sleep, and whatever other "ideal" there is now. What is left will no longer be human.

It won't stop it if the vast majority of people reject such stuff, all it takes is a small minority of people to do it who will eventually take the place of all normal humans. Want your child to be an amazing sports player? Just select whatever gene markers they find for hand-eye coordination. Of course that pretty much defeats the purpose of sport if someone has such an inherent unfair advantage over another. But the fact is that it could get to a stage where an ordinary individual just has no chance at all against these people. And obviously people are more likely to marry better-looking, smarter, more healthy individuals and have offspring with them.

I cannot see how to avoid the above scenario, unless all of those ideas are considered "cursed" like eugenics currently is. I mean, this genetic engineering and designer babies is for all intents and purposes just accelerated eugenics.

[Catsmokinpot]

3 possibilities,

1. We'll wipe ourselves out, because we'll have pushed the ecosystem to a point that it can no longer support us. then in a few million years or more historians of the next race of humanoids will look at the structures we left behind and wonder what happened.

2. We'll be thinned down to an extremely small population size, probably around 10,000 people in pockets around the globe (also because we destroyed the ecosystem), then in about 2000 years historians of the next race of humans will look at the structures we left behind and wonder what happened.

3. We'll learn to control our own population growth and not wipe ourselves out.

1 and 2 in my opinion are most likely, a fitting end IMHO if we dont cop on to ourselves.

3 is still possible though.