Generation Z

realitykeeper

The millennials, (sometimes referred to as generation Y, as in why me) are followed by generation Z. This sounds a bit final. The end of days have been predicted for millennia but the past 10,000 years are really not that long in the timeline of human history. The past hundred years have however brought about the dangers of man made environmental catastrophe (already in motion) as well as potential dangers like global economic implosion and of course war on a scale that could never have happened before. This is to say nothing of the wrath of God - and lets be honest, the way people behave today we are just asking for it.

So my question is, are generation Z aptly named or will the righteous prove otherwise?

Omackeral

Always thought iGeneration was a good name for the current crop of young'uns

Insect Overlord

Introducing NEW!!! Humans 2.0

JohnnyFlash

How much LSD did you take, dude?

brevity

Maybe it’s like an Excel spreadsheet. After Z it goes to AA, AB etc

Wanderer2010

This end of the world thing always makes me laugh. 250,000 people die every day so its the end of their world right there. We don't as humans have any insight into when exactly this planet will stop being functional to support human life. Typical need from mankind to control their environment. If I had to guess id say humans will fcuk up the planet from our pollution and carbon emissions, leading to more and more natural disasters, which will reduce our population and the remaining survivors will wipe each other out in a war over who owns what.

And you know what? When mankind crumbles to dust, the planet will scarcely even notice our absence.

Badly Drunk Boy

brevity wrote: »

Maybe it’s like an Excel spreadsheet. After Z it goes to AA, AB etc

And Croke Park seating. :pac:

Jimbob1977

In rural Ireland, it's Generation a Zed.

The superfluous 'a'

wiggle16

Wanderer2010 wrote: »

. We don't as humans have any insight into when exactly this planet will stop being functional to support human life.

Not quite true. Supposing we manage to avert global warming, there will come a point when the sun's luminosity destroys the carbonate–silicate cycle. This will harden and cement the Earth's crust, so that all volcanic activity will stop and all available CO2 will be gradually locked into rock as carbonate.

Eventually, CO2 levels will fall to negligible amounts in the atmosphere and C3 photosynthesis will be impossible. As the overwhelming majority of plants utilise this kind of photosynthesis, they will all die, and therefore so will all animal life.

This process will be completed in about 600 million years time and it's a pretty definite end point for human kind, providing we survive that long in the interim. The oceans will have boiled away by then so we will be long gone by the time this occurs.

Dr. Bre

Ah it was good craic while it lasted