Many people say that we are the last generation of human race. Some say that the end of the world is near. What do you think, how will the world end?
People constantly say the world's end is near, to make themselves famous, earn money or to motivate people to help solve certain problems.
An example of this is Global Warming. It has been exagerated on A LOT, but if that didn't happen, no one would try to solve it. Why? Because "100 years from now" sounds like a whole new era, which you will never live long enough for to see.
Thus, as the selfish beings we are, people wouldn't try to solve it, until, of course, it's too late and the problem has grown too big to solve. Therefore, we keep hearing that the world's end is near.
I believe humanity isn't going to be extinct any time soon. If we survive the next 150 years, we're gonna survive the next couple billions of years as well.
The current number one threat is probably a large meteorite. If it's large enough and hits the Earth on the right spot, we could be extinct quite easily. Maybe there would be a couple survivors... In a landscape filled with ashes, toxic substances, long cold periods and lacking organisms we're used to eat.
We're gonna have technology to avoid those meteorite impacts though and after we have that technology, our number one threat switches: It'll be our own annihilation.