Future of Mankind, Part I
My thoughts on where we’ll end up – the long view.
I am of the opinion – born of what I feel is a long, productive existence and a life that has been one extended study-hall of immense satisfaction – that unless the developed countries of this world and those people who live therein rapidly modify their priorities, we humans are doomed to be yet another Earth dweller that will sooner than later vanish in a like manner of the dinosaurs, dodos and hundreds of thousands of other species that have dominated or lived upon and disappeared from the face of this Earth.
We will very likely be extinct in a much shorter time frame than the dinosaurs because of our own extraordinary technical skills and intelligence and the equally extraordinary stupidity of our beliefs and behavior.
Dinosaurs lived for many millions of years before they just happened to be in the way of a not-so-big asteroid that put 99% of them out of business along with about 90% of all life on Earth and in its seas. I feel it will not be long, by any measure of time, much less cosmically speaking, before the last poisoned or diseased band of nomadic humans fall, one at a time; until the last man, woman or child dies.
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