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Asked by totaldestruction to Ben, James, Jen, Michael, Susanna on 13 Mar 2013.
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Jen Todd Jones answered on 13 Mar 2013:
I think probably viruses or illness – the greater the number of the population the greater the number of people that can fall Ill and carry disease. The human population on earth is the biggest it’s ever been, and diseases usually continue once they have started until there are too few people lef tto spread it.
The bubonic plague killed a third of the population of Europe including Britain, it wasn’t cured but it just died out when there were too few people left to carry it! I think this is probably our greatest threat, but that’s unless aliens find us and decide they don’t like us! 😉
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Michael Craig answered on 13 Mar 2013:
This is a great question. I think the biggest threat to the human race is ourselves, the human race. We have destroyed and used up a huge amount of the worlds resources which we can’t get back. We have started to realise what we’ve done wrong now but it may be too late to stop global warming. We are seeing the effects of the last 200 years now and it will take a long time to fix. Relating to Jen’s answer, humans have overused antibiotic drugs which we use to treat infections caused by bacteria, this has led to some bacteria being resistant to these drugs and we now call these “super bugs”. If a deadly strain of a superbug got out and was easily transmitted then it could kill a huge number of people around the world. Let’s hope that never happens!!
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Ben Brilot answered on 13 Mar 2013:
Personally I would have said our dependence and use of non-renewable resources (coal, gas, oil, minerals). We have built a society and economy that’s entirely founded on having these things freely available. And they will one day run out with potentially terrible consequences unless we’re prepared for it. Just think about what happens when there’s a petrol shortage, lots of queues, the supermarkets run out of food etc. And that’s just a shortage of a few days…..
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Susanna Martin answered on 13 Mar 2013:
Like Michael I think the greatest threat is ourselves. We have a huge effect on the environment and we run the risk of destroying things that we need to survive such as the rain forests. We’re also not very good at saying sorry and a huge amount of death and destruction has come from having wars with each other. In one of the chats somebody asked how to make a nuclear bomb, and I would be concerned that our knowledge of things like nuclear bombs could threaten our survival.
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