The Immanent Social Crisis

The risk of our extinction is high as I have said, and here is why i believe it.

The world is on the brink of a social crisis, we seem to be living on the edge and this condition may seem obvious to many of us every single day. Despite having so many time-saving convieniences in the modern world today, most of us lead hectic lives enslaved to the clock. It seems like we always have more things that need to get done, than the amount of time we have available. Despite the fact that there are an amazing number of very high quality entertainments available to us, young people in the world today seem to be suffering from unendurable boredom.

Many people have high faith in our technology, they believe it will be able to solve every problem that we ever may face. But in actuality it may very well contribute to our downfall more than it can save us. There have been some remarkable advancements in medical science in the last 200 years, our understanding of gross human anatomy seems complete. We are unlocking the very secrets of the human genome, the molecules of our design. We are seeing the human body now at the scale of individual molecules, and not just a collection of living cells, but understanding how those cells are made. Medical Science will beyond the shadow of a doubt advance human life expectancy significantly in the coming years. Life expectancy has been gradually increaseing for as long as we know there have been human beings living on this Earth. But a very real possibility exists that Medical Science will break through a barrier, with one or more discoveries, treatments or techniques to advance life expectency by a large amount all at once! If Human life expectancy could be extended by as much as 50 years, this could very well be the cause of a world-wide crisis that would end it all.

Consider that the best life extending treatments may only be accessable to the moderately wealthy few. The established people in the world, the ones who are running the show and leading the rest of us - they will benefit the most. And all of that wealth and control will remain the hands of these individuals 50 years longer on average than it currently does. Every new generation wants to know when they will be in control, when will will they secede their parents. And the young people in our world may very well see the possibility of control slipping further from their grasp. And the young men and women of our nations are the ones we call upon to serve as combatents in our wars. The frustration and anger of young people in the world may very well grow to an unsustainable level, and then something must break!

China and India in particular are two countries which are already facing population pressures. China is making an effort to deal with the situation and has made a law that will permit couples to have only one child. The result of this condition is that most parents desire to have male children, and female babes are often abandoned. A new generation of young chinese men is coming into the world today, and they will make up the armies of that country. And how will these poor men be able to find enough wives? If these young men can not find enough wives this is a situation which will inevitably lead to much frustration.

And the world may yet be forced into a war over matters of religious faith. Israel exists as a soverign state in the world but the country and the people are incomplete without the temple. And the temple MUST be rebuilt in Jerusalem on temple mount, on the exact same spot where it had been built in the past. Currently a Moslem mosque exists in that spot and the people of Islam have not expressed a desire to remove it.

The people may fight wars over dwindleing oil reserves, we may fight wars over the right to eat! We may be struggleing to produce enough food for the world's population, to an extent we already are struggleing. Some large populations in the world today have suffered from a condition of starvation and they can not afford to buy food for themselves. What would happen if the population of the USA, the world's self-proclaimed super-power, were faced with a similar struggle to feed it's own people? If our world is facing the advancement of another Ice Age that situation may arise in the future.

And finally the current situation in the world is that the wealthiest 1% of the worlds population is just getting further and further ahead of the rest of the world. The seperation between the wealthiest 1% and the next 9% is growing at an alarming rate. We have a great deal of faith in capitalism to produce large numbers of luxuries. Luxuries have to power to keep people content, quality entertainment may be had very cheaply. The middle class lifestyles that a large part of the world's population enjoys, has much that can lead to satisfaction with life. The number and quality of our freindships that we enjoy probably contributes more to human happiness than an overabundance of material goods. But still the most important decisions that are being made in the world today are being made by a very few. We may yet face a crisis of economics, which leads the world into the final social crisis.

In the end we could very well have a war that destroys the Earth's Biosphere completely, making it unviable for human habitation.