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What do you think is the single biggest problem that humanity as whole faces, or will face in the near future?
Try setting aside all the differences we have for just a brief moment, and imagine us as a whole, as a sentient species on an isolated planet drifting through the dark expanses of space, just how fucked are we? Do we have any chance of banding together and advancing science enough to become and interplanetary species, will we at least set up a colony on Mars in time or is WWII gonna fuck us over before we get a chance?
Does anyone actually think that we need a war in order to advance? Do we even deserve to survive, are we smart enough to do it?
What's your biggest fear for our species? Opinions, Sup Forums, i want to hear it all.

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Global warming and racism

>WWII

Germans and Serbians

>Global warming

Asteroids, superbugs, global warming, etc. I give humanity 50 years max.

>humanity as whole faces, or will face in the near future?
reconciling with own human nature, an entire century was spent fighting it in the name of so-called progress and idealism divorced from reality

I would agree. Do you think we can ever "even out" the monumental cultural and religious divides ripping us apart? Do we actually have to reach a point where all the races are mixed in order for us to stop caring about such trivial things?

Corrupt gubmint n ZOG.

But for reals, autocracy and government has always been the seminal cause of industrial scale loss of life.

Planet fag is my biggest fear

We can survive war, epidemic, genocide, starvation, as a civilisation

But we will not survive faggotry

kek you realize how adaptable human beings are right

you're talking like any of those things will anihilate the entire human race

meanwhile, even if they all happened, humans would still survive beyond it

I've come to the realization that the majority of young people who actually critically analyze the current state of the human species has sunken deeper and deeper into an ironic form of nihilism. Is not giving a fuck about anything the actual way to go about these issues, does anyone have any hope that we can become more than violent apes?

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>too much warming and not enough racism

Sounds rational m8

The genocide of the European

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The way liberalism has turned into blatant stupidity and acceptance of the very ideology that goes against it? You think the migrant influx is going to fuck up all the potential europe might have ?

Plausible

Malignant AI with greater than human intelligence would have the best chance of destroying us all

You underestimate how far gone we are

Jews

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No matter what Race or Religion.. people today are Self-Involved and Self-Centred, they lack Acceptance and Tolerance.. Kindness and Compassion.. Respect, or the ability to Forgive, there is no Value of Life, or really Value of anything for that matter.. People don't have real Faith, or Hope in anything except fulfillment in their own immediate selfish desires

And that, my friend, is why we're doomed.

What we need is a good war

Muslims and third worlders will hold us back the most because of liberals trying to help them all of the time. My biggest fear is that Islam will brainwash and take over all before we have a chance to exterminate them.

>What do you think is the single biggest problem that humanity as whole faces, or will face in the near future?
No, extinction level events happening. So were a ok

>how fucked
Not very much

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Do we have any chance of banding together and advancing science enough to become and interplanetary species
Probably not

>ww3
Yes its gonna fuck us over regardless of when it happens

>need war
No, but it would make advances faster

>smart enough
Yes

>biggest fear
Greed

My guess is it wouldn't be malignant necessarily, but it would probably kill the need for most human jobs pretty fast
we'd tear ourselves apart politically and socially bc of that and psychologically due our eventual rejecting of our first version anime matrixes

What's your position on people like Elon Musk? Or should i say, what's your position on Elon Musk?

do you think people like him could actually do good for the entire species?

Or.. maybe.. instead of shit-posting on threads all day every day we could go out in our daily lives and don't see race, color or religion, just simply smile at people.. hold a door open for a few people in a row.. say please and thank you to everyone and anyone, even if they aren't doing it to you.. ask someone how their day is going (and mean it) .. listen more than you talk.. Try it. It spreads fast. Instead of being part of the problem, try being part of the solution

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They had such massive gains in the last milenium its going to be the dominating religion soon. 2050 is basically going to be the great war between the chineese (who are the second greatest conetebder for wolrs domination) and muzzies. Cap this you heard it here first.

A whole lot of lsd is needed in order for everyone to realize that...i'm afraid we're a long way from that

Okay Canada, hold the airport door open for that nice young Santiago boy.

I probably would have.. maybe it would have changed his day.. maybe not. Either way I'm not going to hold his entire race accountable for his actions

I think if I really cared, really wanted to make a difference, the best thing to do would be to dose the masses with LSD. Operation MINDFUCK will eventually get going. We've already got the most common psychedelic legalized in half the country.

Jews

I assume this is about space x.

Dunno about his character but hes correct in assuming that space exploration will be privatized in the future

>people like him could actually do good for the entire species
He's doing the simplest answer to fix the environment. LEAVE EARTH

He's a bussinessman through and through but once you have the kind of money he has theres not much you can spend it on

So yes if theres a lot more people who spend money to advance tech innovations then it would be good

Santiago wouldn't care if you held the door for him. He's too caught up in himself, victimizing himself for things that happened to people a thousand miles away, years ago. Just a human blight, filled with misdirected hate. No amount of hugs can undo that. All you accomplish is making your family suffer when they have to identify your body, cut to ribbons.

If we started treating each other better that kind of thing wouldn't happen anywhere near as often.

The fuck kind of delusions of grandeur does it take to believe that small gestures of submission are adequate enough to solve the massive, unrelated, existential problems that humanity faces

you must be a grill

1.6 billion of brainwashed invasive retards breeding out of control

Are you ready the ultimate red pill?
Nothing is wrong with the world, everything is going as it should, we are just in a rather exiting chapter of Gods favourite story's.

Simply money.while the rich ones get richer the poor ones get rekt and have to pay.we need a basic income and increase of other incomes or we the people get frustrated more and more

Are you suggesting that we need to get rid of capitalism as a whole and adapt a new and better system? Any suggestions?

The sad part is...i actually think you're mostly right.
Islam is sadly incompatible with basic human rights and any form of higher thought

neonazis

no i think its more about fair distribution

Global economic collapse caused by the depletion of major fossil fuels (coal, oil etc).

Overpopulation of 2nd-3rd world regions, its spillover and the eventual collapse of Western Civlization.

Replacement of a large portion of the work force by automation, causing an increased gap in the lower and upper class, with a dissapearance of the middle class.

I'm not saying it would eliminate it.. but it would be a start. Any form of kind contribution would be better than way it is now.

So, that will end us in aprox...50 years?
if we're lucky?

LSD doesn't magically turn people into enlightened sages you dipshits.
Leary already tried that approach in the 60s and it failed miserably.
I love LSD but it made me a nationalist, not a leftist. Same goes for many people here.

It would be a huge step forward indeed

this. its a stupid meme

too grand?

Greed.

As it always has been, and always will be.

i'm not doing your homework for you, faggot.

It wont "end" human civilization per se.

The world will eventually move to fully renewable energy like wind, hydro, geothermal and solar, but it will only be able to support a fraction of the global population that is currently being propped up on oil and coal.

It will just be a type of dark age were a lot of people in the world die.

That's a valid point. I would say LSD actually potentiates what you search for and what your view of reality is, only making it deeper. Much much deeper. That being said, i really don't believe lsd would make us all unite and realize a common truth.

Props for the 4D meme

Well, i'm afraid thermodynamics won't let that one go..so yeah. Even if we manage to thrive for millions of years across millions of light years, we're still fucked

There are 3 problems humanity faces that are of supreme strategic importance:

a.) Peak food: We have exhausted all land with easily available food supplies, unless there is a radical shift in agriculture, the world will not be able to feed a growing population

b.) Bacterial resistance: Bacterial resistance will essentially cause a decline of as much as 25% of the world population and there is nothing you can do to stop it. So say goodbye to 1/4 people around you because by 2050 a tooth being pulled could be the way you die.

c.) Global Warming: Global warming COULD potentially have catastrophic repurcussions through the world food supply. Avacado's this year had a huge blight, last year it was oranges, year before it was grapes, everything is in whack because the climate is changing - set aside whether or not the climate is "man made" or otherwise, the issue is of tantamount importance because of realization A.)

>Unironically cutting the tail off the dog to try and stop it from wagging
>Unironically getting yourself bit
>Unironically not cutting the (((head))) off the dog so the tail stops wagging on its own

The sad part is that you genuinely believe Islam is the cause and the effect. They're the effect, no doubt. But are they the cause? Well, lets try a thought experiment

>You lived in relative peace (peace as far as having a problem with the West are concerned for sure)
>Suddenly the people you hate more than any other moves into the country next door
>You finally get sick of it and decide someone has to pay
>Do you travel thousands upon thousands of miles when your biggest technological advancement is the donkey and attack more than a billion people
>Or do you travel to the country next door that contains all of the 8m people you hate

If someone was paying you money on a constant basis to leave them alone on the condition that if you attacked them the funds would cease, would you attack them? It must just be pure coincidence or something and all of those brand new 4x4s and all that camera equipment just grew on the fabled 4x4 trees and HD camera shrubs that are all over the Middle East.

If climate change is real, everyone is equally fucked and we have no chance of surviving it at this point. If not, probably nuclear war as everyone slowly gets more and more xenophobic.

Imho the biggest threat to our success is reverse racism. If you get called a racist, no matter what race you yourself present, it is a good thing. Because, if you see another race as a threat to you, means that you acknowledge their power. If you are a racist you think that you are powerfull yourself, and recognize that there are groups of people that are powerfull enough to fuck your shit up.

However

If you are NOT a racist, you basically assume that everyone else is inferior to you, and because your culture is the supreme one, everyone needs your protection and everyone should act like you. In your arrogance, you falsely push your way of life to everyone around you and create schisms everyone else has to deal with

We will survive climate change, we will just need to thin out the heard to survive. We need to figure out which citizens deserve to live at this point and which people deserve to die.

Nuclear holocaust is exceedingly unlikely. We may see one or two more nukes used on military targets (or in terrorist attacks), but humanity as a whole will not be threatened.

Global warming is a meme. Even if it is real, it's slow-moving enough that we will be able to avoid complete disaster. Humans are really good at that.

So I'd say the biggest threat is running out of resources before we're able to bootstrap to a sufficiently high level of technology. If we consume all our precious metals, we don't really get another chance. We would be reduced to a primitive standard of living for the rest of our species' existence. That would be incredibly depressing.

biggest problem is muslims, jews, then probably chinese

once those problems are out of the way we can colonize the stars

Those are real, factual problems, and they are scary to say the least. Could the solution for problem a) be a shift in the global dietary customs, do you think we're too degenerate to lower meat consumption to cut down the methane releases?

Also...the bees are dying man

The fact that suffering still exists. We need to figure out a way to re-engineer our brains/neurochemistry/genetics so that suffering no longer exists.

Destroying biodiversity on the planet and cutting down rainforests. We need to stop that shit right now. There are many species that only exist in small areas on the planet that may have incredible chemicals that cure diseases or other miraculous stuff but we've already killed them to grow more palm oil to make our bullshit unhealthy food.

Also overpopulation, but not western. The west is fine. I'm worried about billions of niggers in Africa being useless and spreading disease and violence to the world as refugees.

This

>if you are NOT a racist, you basically assume that everyone else is inferior to you
>NOT a racist
>you basically assume that everyone else is inferior to you

Pick one

Peak food is bullshit and will never happen. We already make more than double the food we need on the planet. If we start making insect protein based food there is almost no limit to how many cricket energy bars we can produce.

Truly, my biggest fear is totalitarianism.

The current likely version is a type of totalitarianism in which life is made easy by the machine. Machines and industry produce abundance. Life is easy. There is no material suffering. Everyone is soft.

But Man is no longer Man. Men and women are equal. There are no longer distinct ethnic divisions. Working hard is unnecessary. Competition doesn't exist, and the very idea is considered evil.

Fucking whoever you want is okay, you won't get pregnant or diseased.

Get as fat as you want, you won't get diabetes or have a heart attack.

Be as lazy as you want, games and movies are flashy and entertaining.

Don't try to make anything. Whatever you make is subpar compared to the machine's products, and what you make won't belong to you anyway.

Don't stand up for yourself. You are too weak to survive without the machine, and even if you were, you're hurting the people who do need it.

I'm as afraid of the communist utopia as I am of the communist dystopia.

Fuck socialism.
Fuck progress.
Fuck equality.

Fuck the machine. It is capable of providing for us, but it is going to rule us. I am a man. I refuse to be ruled.

“The Strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to fight wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them.”

Give it a healthy guess, we waste the resources, or we abandon ship and spread out into space before that happens? Also, how hopeful are you that we might discover new means of obtaining energy, perhaps new resources altogether?


What's your stance on fusion energy, is it a meme or a possibility?

I think wether we like it or not. The "necessity" of man is coming to an end. We either genetically engineer ourselves into something much different than we now are, or we create an AI that continues our work or works with us exploring the galaxy.

Wait a min-

We are both the means and the end of our work. I do not care to see an AI explore the galaxy. It means nothing to me. It means nothing to the galaxy.

Yeah

>Muh its cold outside here therefore global warming doesn't exist

religion was a mistake

I truly think that religion will kill any agreement or contract towards world peace and prosperity.

Because it assumes we're not responsible for our own actions since (((god))) has a plan?

Antichrist

In a world of such abundance, inevitably someone will want to create a more dramatic story. They may do so in a simulation. Then the cycle will continue.

I'm optimistic. Fusion is clearly not a meme since stars can do it. Even if we can't harness fusion, we can at least build a Dyson swarm.

Actually, I take back what I said about precious metals. I forgot that there are trillions of dollars worth of precious metals stored in asteroids. We're pretty close to being able to mine them.

>What do you think is the single biggest problem that humanity as whole faces, or will face in the near future?
Putin declaring nuclear war on every country he can't manipulate or control covertly.

ladibois

I agree 100%. And religion Truly was a mistake. Or were they created intentionally for Control. Jesus wasn't a Christian, Buddha wasn't a Buddhist and Muhammad wasn't a Muslim..

Yup, literally all we need out there in our solar backyard. But! Could the leap to interplanetary civilization be the great filter hypothesized in the Fermy paradox, if so, does it mean it's game on if we survive the next 100 years?

More that it only serves to push people into irreconcilable divisions

No, just think about it for a sec. This subconditional behaviorism, animal instinct if you will. Im sure youll figure it out

Holy shit, how can you go through one thread like that and still be happy in your life.

I need to turn delusional on the other side again.

redpill is real, a real emotional mistake.

It all boils down to basic human instincts,
The one we're looking at here is the superiority complex.

Arguments will rise again about who has the superior religion and Islamic jihadists following ancient writing about killing infidels,
You cannot comprehend how much pure hate Muslims have to everyone different.
You can't have a peaceful world while the religion of peace is still around, the two can't co-exist

Because life is beautiful.

>Serbia
I swear we need to make Mars General threads here. A couple of you Serb Sup Forumsros, along with a sprinkling of others made them super comfy and mind expanding.

On topic, interplanetary exploration and colonization should be a goal of humanity

It has always been globalism versus nationalism and it's not going to change until we get a bigger and more destructive world war that settles the final dictatorship

As long as we find a laugh out of the worse situations.

Solar Warden.

what was the weather same time last year in that same area? -55 C?

All keks aside, i actually understand what you're taking about. In a weird twist, the ones who have "risen above" the practice of racism are the ones that blindly help anyone, including the ones that actively fight for the prosperity of their race alone!

That's why we're all here, isn't it?

global warming will be solved by technology in 20 years

meteors will be stoppable in 15 years

our biggest problem will be the coming singularity

even if it is a "nice" AI we will run out of stuff to do.

imagine a 85-95% unemployment rate

this is the biggest fear of intelligent people like Elon and Bill