what will kill us first?

[leftofthedial]

lots of doom in the air. Our species is surely doomed.

Oooooooooh!







edit: added "Other"

[MissBrooks]

1. HA HA!! Great Poll!

[rfkrfk]

15. Sars, and related pathogens,

pose a clear and pending danger to humanity.
For example, the people who clean up
airliner cabins, should wear space-suits.
Union asleep, IMO.

[firebee]

19. Well, We're dropping bunker busting bombs on a regular basis..

I wonder how much that has to do with all the seismic activity we're seeing. It would seem that kind of vibration might have an effect on the stability of the faults along the plates. Of course, that's just another "conspiracy theory".

[charlie]

2. Stupidity

We could have it all. We're productive, resourceful, and smart enough for all of us to live like kings, starting tomorrow. But that'll never happen.

[IStriker]

32. If stupidity could kill us, we'd already be dead.

[leftofthedial]

39. stupidity should be painful

but not necessarily fatal

[signmike]

3. Lord, deliver us from the religious nuts.

Thank God I'm an atheist. :evilgrin:

[leftofthedial]

5. cheers!

:toast:

[DS1]

4. I'd prefer the deity option

It'd be (briefly) interesting watching some good old Biblical Ass Kicking being dished out :7

[leftofthedial]

6. I'd be the most surprised guy on earth

but it would be an interesting show

[saltpoint]

7. Your poll didn't include choices --

-- for fire and ice.

Not that I would have known which to choose.

'Went with 'pandemic' but I'm more personally afraid of religious nutcases.

Great poll.

[demnan]

8. I believe

we as humans will destroy ourself by the extraordinary damage we're doing to the environment.

[tk2kewl]

9. The only thing other than an asteroid that can wipe out nearly all of us

is the theo-cons and a nuke war

[Karenina]

42. Don't be so sure.

Where are those UFOs when ya need 'em? :evilgrin:

[justinsb]

10. I think the pandemic thing,

it was close - the conservatives are cetainly doing their best to kill everyone on the planet. But, because the US unlike most industrialized countries doesn't have a well organized, interconnected public health system you are much more vulnerable to pandemics. Look at the whole flu shot thing for example, Canada currently has stockpiles of Avian Influenza vacceine - ready to distribute as soon as it rears it's head. When SARS broke, the WHO was initially relieved it wasn't Avian Influenza - this is apparently a very serious one and if it gets into the human population the effects will be devestating. Has the US, as far as you know, done anything at all to prepare for it and if it happened, how long would it take for public health officals in the US to know what was happening?

[indigobusiness]

11. Famine.

Laugh while the laughing's good.

[leftofthedial]

21. famine caused by economic mismanagement

or by environmental disaster?

[Solon]

27. I would say both in a sense...

caused by the Green Revolution collapsing, and the lack of viable, ariable land because the chemicals we put in it all these years, without using tried and true methods, like crop rotation, will make the dust bowl seem like just a really cloudy day.

[indigobusiness]

29. I would agree with Solon. There is already a crisis of bees/polination.

But, does it matter how? It is in the cards by sheer population density. Any form of crisis that breaks down the supply-chain will be horrific.

Who am I to say how? It is just my guess as to what.

At the rate of ice melting into the N Atlantic, it is my suspicion that the Gulf Stream stalling will be the engine of N American famine. If honeybees lose their battle with the mite that is devastating them, it might be sooner and different.

[flvegan]

12. What about zombies?

Everyone always forgets the undead.

[Solon]

17. Cheney is already in power...

so the zombie question is moot, they are already here.

[leftofthedial]

23. LOL

:thumbsup:

[leftofthedial]

22. I forgot them alright

silly me!

[TaleWgnDg]

13. Jesus, deliver me FROM your followers . . . n/t

[RC]

14. You forgot mass starvation

When the oil runs out. We need a steady supply of oil to run the farm machinery and make the anhydrous fertilizer.

How many of us can grow the food we need in a window box?

[Solon]

16. The dust bowl was only a run up to the next catastrophe...

The Green Revolution isn't all its cracked up to be, and when it ends, we are all going to have to go out to the disused fields and try to grow food on ground that hasn't been rotated in 50 years. How are you with a hoe?

[signmike]

34. I get along with my hoe just fine

now don't you go dissin my mama, ya hear?

;-)

[leftofthedial]

24. that's a good scenario

Economic mismanagement as a category.

[mcscajun]

18. It's gonna be a "combo meal" actually...

we'll have a few natural disasters along the lines of the past week's tsunami, scattered around the globe, followed by associated pestilence and famine...and a pandemic will sweep the planet.

Yeah, I'll sleep well tonight with Those Happy Thoughts.

[leftofthedial]

25. Cheers!

Keep up the good thoughts!

:toast: :thumbsup: :chill:

[indigobusiness]

31. That has a Four Horsemen ring to it.

The first being an advocate and agent of war around the planet, upon a white horse. Sound like anyone you know?

[ulysses]

20. other.

[leftofthedial]

26. LOL

the end of culture as we knew it

[name not needed]

28. Ronald Reagan and Tiny Tim will rise from the grave

After which they will take over Russia and China. They will team up, steal the world's water supply with the largest weather balloon ever created, and then strip mine the planet as they fly to the moon with our water.

:tinfoilhat:

[leftofthedial]

38. just like it says in the bible!

praise god and hand me a viper!

[name not needed]

40. Outta vipers.

Take a parakeet.

[leftofthedial]

41. even better

parakeets can carry avian flu! much deadlier than a wimpy-ass old rattlesnake.

[seekinguniqueness]

30. Just like the dinosaurs

So go the humans. (An asteroid impact)

[Darranar]

33. Environmental disaster. If not that, nuclear war. n/t

[signmike]

35. I watched "The Day After Tomorrow" last night

just for the special effects. I love that stuff! Mentions the fresh water versus salt in the oceans and the stream currents being interrupted, though.
It's too many for me. I just liked watching the movie.

[unpossibles]

36. I voted other

because it will be a combination of the above.

[blindpig]

37. environmental catastrophe is slower but surer. n/t

[antigone382]

43. How about all of the above?

n/t

[JohnLocke]

44. Cheerful poll, eh? (nt)