This Is A Tough One Folks... But What's Your Best Guess... As To What Is Gonna Doom Us

[WillyT]

I know there's some overlap in the choices, but I'm curious as to what people are most concerned about here.

21 votes, 0 passes | Time left: Unlimited
	ISIS
	0 (0%)
	Ebola
	1 (5%)
	Military Industrial Complex
	0 (0%)
	Climate Change
	5 (24%)
	Unbridled Capitalism
	8 (38%)
	The Republican Party
	1 (5%)
	Lack Of Educated Voters
	1 (5%)
	Lack Of Motivated And Educated Voters
	1 (5%)
	An Asteroid
	0 (0%)
	None Of The Above/Other
	4 (19%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[notadmblnd]

1. You forgot FEAR ITSELF!

Fear is what will doom us.

[WillyT]

8. Damn... You Are Correct...

Ran out of blanks...

But great pont!

[Downwinder]

2. Human nature.

[Scootaloo]

3. Quantify these terms: "Doom," and "us"?

Some dooms are doomier than others, and "us" can be anything from the voices in your head, to every possible life form stretching the breadth of the universe.

[WillyT]

11. Doom... Millions, If Not Billions, Dying...

Us... the Human Race.

[Scootaloo]

31. Alright then. Climate change comes the closest.

Humans, as a species, are going to live past it. We've got at least another two hundred thousand years left in us, barring, y'know, asteroid impacts or something.

However while our species is durable, we as individuals aren't, and our "civilization" sure isn't.

For most of our past we were a tribal hunter-gathering species. I imagine that for much of our ftur, it will be the same. We're never going to spread out to other planets in any meaningful way, and our resources "at home" are limited. Even with perfect management, there are walls we can't climb over.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Other:

Nothing will doom us.

The world will thrive, as long as everybody reads my posts.

[WillyT]

12. Thank You For Saving Us All...

[bluedigger]

20. PM me when ever you post.

I don't want Doom to happen just because I missed something.

[marlakay]

5. I voted for climate but think it is

Either that or a terrorist getting a bomb over here....more than the one.

Too many countries with them have money problems.

[cherokeeprogressive]

6. Asteroid. Most certainly.

And soon.

[WillyT]

14. :)

[Whiskeytide]

7. I think ISIS will establish a base...

... in Antarctica. The MIC will lobby for a bombing run with new, sophisticated weaponry which will accidentally accelerate climate change by melting copious amounts of snow and permafrost. An up til then unknown, but highly contagious, form of Ebola will be let loose from its frozen, dormant state and will begin spreading in a pandemic - Aggressive countermeasures will be stymied in the Republican controlled Congress - placed into power by ignorant voters - so as not to give Obama any credit, and also to prevent a market crash and the loss of Billions on Citrus futures. Future generations of human mutants will study these events from the Asteroid Weyralfuctd, which struck the Earth at the height of the pandemic, thereby interplanetarily transferring our species to its new home.

So, actually - the Asteroid's going to save us.

[Sherman A1]

10. Will there be a mini series?

sounds like a great plot!

[WillyT]

16. ROFLMAO !!!

[Brigid]

24. Stephen King, is that you?

[KansDem]

9. I voted "unbridled capitalism"

I believe it's the primary reason for climate change and Republicans...

[WillyT]

17. Word !!!

[bananas]

13. Nuclear War. nt

[WillyT]

18. OK... That One Actually Scares Me...

[HereSince1628]

15. I dunno but Population is gonna be part of the deal

Either because every per capita survival challenge is multiplied by N

Or because the problem eliminates N of us.

[WillyT]

19. Great Point...

[enlightenment]

21. I vote "other"

If anything gets us, it will be a collective loss of reason and common sense, replaced by knee-jerk hysteria; over-reaction; and blindered fear of anything and everything.

[WillyT]

22. That's A Really Good "Other"...

[AverageJoe90]

25. In all likelihood? Nothing.

Other than that, though, maybe in the far future, assuming we hadn't colonized space or anything, I'd place my money on a gamma ray burst or K/T event. Either of those two really could wipe out humanity entirely.....even a full-fledged nuclear war in the '80s couldn't quite reach that level.

[deathrind]

26. Humans...

We are our own worst enemy.

[Louisiana1976]

27. My guess is climate change. Because it will cause increased hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards.

[KG]

28. 2-party politcal system. it's killing this country right now

[GGJohn]

29. If not Ebola,

then I envision something like the movie, I Am Legend, where a cure for cancer mutates and wipes out most of earths inhabitants.

[Prophet 451]

30. Really, it's several things

I could have picked climate change or the Republican party or the military-industrial complex. But in the end, I picked unbridled capitalism because that's the underlying cause of the other three.