EthoLiberal Society

What is our greatest existential threat? What events or cause/effect scenarios could lead to the end of humanity's existence on Earth? Outside of the scope of astrological events, think asteroids, solar decay, etc., what human caused events could destroy us as a species? The idea that the greatest existential threat to humanity is human activity has been with us for a while. He's an image and a pity statement from a poster created by Walter Kelly in 1970 for the first Earth

Milestones of technology - Humans came on the scene ~ 200,000 years ago. - Language is thought to be ~ 50,000 years old - Farming first occurred ~ 12,000 years ago. - Writing, arguably one of our best technologies is ~ 5,000 years old - Science is ~ 500 years old (really more like 150-years in it's current refined form) - The Enlightenment occurred about ~ 200 years ago, helping to shed religious control over society - Electricity has only been around for ~150 years. Human