What can we do to continue our race into the unforseen future?

Pink Floyd said

"Long youll live, and high youll fly,

and smiles youll give and tears youll cry.

And all you touch, and all you see is all your life will ever be."

I find that that kind of sums up who we are as sentient beings. The thing with our brains is, we are conditioned on a daily basis by ourselves and the people and things around us to be the kind of person we want to be, and most often that means being the kind of person others want us to be. Don't break any laws, be a good citizen, pay your taxes, etc. Maximize pleasure, minimize pain. Pain being getting in trouble by the law or your peers, or even being disgusted with yourself, or your conscience. But who is one person to say what is right and wrong, based on their own logic, generated from completely different circumstances than another's? Take gun ownership as an example. People in Norway are not allowed to own firearms. Someone may have owtlawed guns, because of something gun related that happened them, someone in their lives, or a stories they may have heard about guns, leading them to believe that gun ownership is something to be controlled. While someone else, who may have depended on a gun their whole lives to eat or protect themselves, may feel very differently. Who is to say one person's views are right and the other person's are wrong?

What makes who we are is nothing more than the bubble that is our thoughts, emotions, and experiences. Some people are "smarter" than others, due to physical strengths and shortcomings.

However different we are, we are all human, and all part of that endless mass of peers that is overtaking the world exponentially. If the earth is like a cell, then we are like a cancer, growing to cover the surface, polluting it and rapidly making it become worthless to us and other living things. This is an undeniable fact. In the very near future (relative to the age of the universe) we will run out of life sustaining resources. What will we do after that? Move to another planet, die out like the dinosaurs, or Captain Trips in Stephen King's The Stand? Will the higher powers kill us off with some chemical super-agent, in order to secure their own future? I don't put much stock in it, but i certainly don't rule it out.

I think that if we have any chance at perpetuating life whatsoever, it is in math and science, and "death". We are coming far in the field of quantum mechanics and particle physics, so far in fact that its not inconceivable that we may be able to save our race before its too late. We are on a precipice, and until we can eliminate inefficiency, we will continue to march toward the ledge, toward the unknown. But the unknown can be known if we educate ourselves, as we've educated ourselves on everything else for so many centuries, about the physical aspect of life and death. I'll stop here because I'm rambling.

Thoughts?