Will the world ever be at peace?
“Genuine “world peace”–meaning effective consensus regarding shared sacrifices as well as voluntary cooperation–is theoretically possible. Worldwide peace is most likely only some decades from now, when threats to humanity’s existence generated by global warming, pollution, etc., become an imminent threat to all.
What was the closest humans came to extinction?
New genetic findings suggest that early humans living about one million years ago were extremely close to extinction. The genetic evidence suggests that the effective population—an indicator of genetic diversity—of early human species back then, including Homo erectus, H. ergaster and archaic H.
What would happen to the world if humans went extinct?
But if humans went extinct then there would be no children to provide life for and no one to pass knowledge on to…. But if humans went extinct then there would be no children to provide life for and no one to pass knowledge on to. If humans went extinct then the state of the earth would be of no consequence to us because we wouldn’t exist.
Where would the world’s megafauna be without humans?
His research has revealed that without humanity’s heavy species impact, the central United States, and parts of South America, would be the most megafauna-rich places on Earth today. Animals like elephants would be a common sight in the Mediterranean Islands.
Could the Earth have been as diverse as the Serengeti?
Without humans spreading to the far corners of the Earth and driving down megafauna populations, the entire planet could have been as diverse in these species as the famed Serengeti in East Africa is today, Faurby told Live Science.
Were birds the only dinosaurs to survive extinction?
Were birds the only dinosaurs to survive extinction? Well over 99 per cent of the species that have ever existed on Earth have died out, most during cataclysms and extinction events of the sort that killed off the dinosaurs. Humanity has never faced an event of that magnitude, but sooner or later we will.