This World Will It Survive The Next 100 Years?

I do Sheldon. The way things look, this world will not survive the next 100 years. It will take a heavenly government to bring peace, it will not come from man.

Please tell Penny to share this tract with all her friends. :D

Paisley Moon

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Justice/2012/0109/US-...

Not that I usually use the Christian science monitor for news, but it was one of the first to pop up on a google search. Note that the crime rate is dropping and has been since the early 90s. As for the incidents of natural disasters, I have not seen any thing that would indicate an increase in natural disasters, but because of technology, we are much more able to find out about natural disasters around the world. I think the same is true with famine and disease. Recall that the bubonic plague wiped out half of Europe.

Also note that we are able to get aid to places much more quickly because people are much more informed. How many millions of dollars were quickly donated to the Japanese tsunami victims in the US. Think about how awesome that is. People actually thinking globally and willing to help out people of entirely different cultures and doing so quickly.

As for war, check out this. The only wars going on that have significant loss of life are so far below what occurred during WW I and WWII.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anth...

Now while I will admit that there are many issues facing mankind and many thing we need to work on, I think we are actually moving in the right direction.

Take overpopulation for instance. This could become a huge problem in the future, but note that every country in which women are educated and given rights, there is acutally a 0 population growth and even a negative population growth.

So if we follow what we know to be right and start to do things like educate women, promote equal rights, etc., we can address the biggest problems facing mankind. In the end it is up to us where this country and this world goes.

Edit:

Wow, the only answer that provided facts and references to back up my statements and more thumbs down then thumbs up. YA people, you may want to reconsider what makes for a good answer.

Sandy's brunt of force was handled by human effort - less than 70 people died in what was the most unusual storm in memory. Katrina's devastation was the product of neglect and poor governance of population, of groups, and of individuals.

In the last three hundred years, war has diminished continually through efforts of men.

Famine in the world has become a manageable process where the world's governances determine who starves.

Crime is diminishing in the world as knowledge makes it less attractive and criminals are more easily found: this trend will not diminish.

Every form of disease in the world is losing its grip on our future - again at the pleasure & whim of human governance.

My point is that your involvement in these issues should direct your attention to those decision-makers in your world. If you are a good person, that effort becomes your duty and will improve the world - to make it last.

"Sandy, Katrina, Wars, Famine, Rising Crime, Disease."

Yeah, war, famine, crime and disease just didn't happen before the 20th century did it? Something really is going wrong nowadays...

The world will, of course. And I don't think anything short of destroying the planet can kill all of humanity anymore.

But in a hundred years, there will be no more Jehovah's Witnesses.

Sandy and Katrina -- that's a very American-centric view of the world you have there!

I believe that penny's only neighbors are Sheldon and Leonard, neither of whom would be offering religious cr*p as advice to anyone ... now change it to Sheldon's mother and I might believe!

Can not see how.

of course it will

i would estimate at least another million

and i expect far more than that

will humans survive is a different question

lol that link is pathetic, christian nonesense

Most Likely, but us? Who knows.