Ofcourse the world will end, all things do. The world has passed peak oil, and eventually, if we don't keep up- we won't be able to drill deeper. Unless we have some form of alternative energy, everything will eventually go to chaos, as people need oil. I suppose war for oil would occur after this, maybe even nuclear war, and then we're back to square one.
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The thought is that, by that time, humans will be planet hopped or at least have created a generation ship to carry our species away from this planet. However, the only thing getting in the way of those plans is public opinion and government. NASA needs more funding, people! Mars is a planet one which we could LIVE! It has WATER! Survivable temperatures! To avoid destruction of our species in the distant future we must act now and expand to the stars. This rock is where we were born, but we can't stay in mom's house forever!
The sun will enter a stage known as the "Red Giant" where it enters a period of rapid expansion before undergoing its own supernova stage. During the red giant stage the Earth will be consumed by quite a margin.
Great replies guys i'm loving them, keep it up! I am very interested in what you all think about this subject.
May 21st 2011, anybody?
c. 500,000,000: The level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will drop as to make Earth unhabitable. c. 4,000,000,000: The Andromeda–Milky Way collision is a predicted galaxy collision that will take place in approximately 4 billion years' time between the two largest galaxies in the Local Group—the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way, which contains the Solar System and Earth. c. 5,000,000,000: The end of our Sun's current phase of development, after which it will swell into a red giant, either swallowing the Earth or at least completely scorching it. It is widely accepted by the scientific community that the earth will be destroyed around this time. However, as the Sun grows gradually hotter (over millions of years), the Earth may become too hot for life in only a billion years' time. 10^100 years: The heat death of the universe is a suggested ultimate fate of the universe, in which the universe has diminished to a state of no thermodynamic free energy and therefore can no longer sustain motion or life.
There are a variety of ways that the world will end itself, mostly by the human beings today. One possible way is World War 3 with nuclear missiles and war-on-war in countries, both citizen and soldier. After that, countries start to decay the eletrical buildings to start to be unmanned, therefore blacking out most cities. In my opinion, people will be using mobile generators and will fight against other citizens aswell and then the old world turns on itself, the environment growing in places that aren't suppose to be there in a few more years from then. Plants begin to grow here and there in unexpected areas like going through the cracks of cement. Just take Tschernobyl and the future Fukushima, do you really think we want them but in other regions of the Earth aswell? Apparently, a mad man will start this all by the click of a button. Radiation will be lurking under your feet everywhere you go. You are not safe no more. Hear of mad scientists? Yeah, they will cause epidemics on the world today with diseases that are fatal. We probably won't have a vaccination. Remember the epidemic back somewhere in the 18th - 19th century that killed a massive population in the world ranging from China to North America to Europe? It will probably be much more worse than we expected. Although, there is many disastererous things like cancer to flesh-eating bacteria to diabetes to flu to even chickenpox. We never know what is going to happen. Probably aliens... or zombies... or robots... or humans? The environment. Not caused by humans but the world itself. Probably in a billion or so years from now. The world will start to crack in half to the villages, towns, city being flooded by a massive loads of water. a lot of signs are predicted by a lot of people. Fuck conspiracy theorists, let's move on! Oh wait, I have no more. That's all I have left. I guess that's the only announcement I had. I guess we have to wait and found out. Also, the above users that commented are probably right about it too.