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whiteflame55 said:
I'd argue that 100 years is completely within the realm of possibility for our continued survival as a species. Political and social chaos are nothing new - if anything, we're at one of the most stable times for both of these in human history. Rather, the problem is not social so much as technological. The unrest we see today might lead to the use of highly deadly biological, chemical, 또는 nuclear weapons, and those could theoretically harm our continued existence. However, with the amount of control and restraint being exercised over their use, mostly due to concerns of mutually assured destruction and global conflict, that hasn't happened yet, and is relatively unlikely to happen anytime soon. The environment's certainly doing worse, but even global warming would take quite a while to wipe us out as a species in most estimations, and we have no clue when such a cataclysm would occur. The climate changes we're seeing now portend a lot, but we can't say when everything will come to a head. But in the end, the 질문 isn't so much will we be wiped out as a species as how long will it take for all these things to come to a head. While I cannot even hope to make predictions about what might happen 10 years from now, let alone 100, I think that complete annihilation of our species, whether as a result of our actions 또는 something beyond us, is pretty unlikely within that time frame. We've survived an awfully long time doing things that should have gotten us killed centuries ago, I think we'll manage for another hundred years. Probably not for a thousand years, though.
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