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Don't the Chinese have some kind of birth control policy already?.

DL

Fiona Bruce?????

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

Just asked OH and he said he would too pmsl

Blimey....

yes, I think they do. One child to all urban couples, which has led to the unpleasant sight of newborn childrens bodies lying in the street.

When you look at all the disasters sea related,,,,is the earth crumbling from the inside out has it already started?

Well, that'd be me out of your picture of the everafter

Just as well I've got an alternative vision - which, funnily enough, doesn't feature Lara Croft ot Fiona Bruce

Btw, welcome back, Eldrick - I've missed your wit


Sue x

Of course there is the entry of VR.

Why evolve in the real world when there is a virtual one?.

DL

The murder of female babies seems to be the order of the day through China's attempts at compulsory birth control.

Sue xx

yes, a very sad spectacle indeed.

My radical theory is we will devolve rather than evolve, due to the increase in technology.

My theory is based on things I have noticed in our current enviroment. mainly the internet has made us lazy.

WHY?

As touched on earlier on this thread.

Firstly if we wanted to post a letter we used a post box,now we have E-mail.
We shop online,we bank online,we pays our bills online,we even talk to our friends online LOL.
SO why do we need to evolve when we don't need to get off our bums.

DL

hmmmm........i think man will destroy itself .were on a mission as it is .

Well the educational experts say that children don't retain knowledge anymore. This is because they look up information on the internet, copy it into their books and assignments, then forget it. After all if they need to find the info. again it's there on the computer. Will future generations just have a "knowledge" chip inserted in their brains where all information is there without the use of books, schools, teachers etc.

Sue xx

Man is no different to the animal world in many respects.

We reproduce,squabble over territory and females LOL,kill to eat etc etc,

The one thing we do differ from is the animals seem to know how to keep the balance.
Until we know this then yes there is a possibilty we will certaily try to exterminate ourselves.

DL

yes, until something happens to bring the world to its senses, the human race is hell bent on self destruction by warfare. Mostly over the same issue :-)

War - I doubt we have ever learnt from past experiences. The same old grievances brought up time and time again over centuries.

Sue xx

Man has so far managed to combat natures PEST CONTROL attempts,so it may be a diesease which gets us in the end.

DL

As in our immune systems being lowered, DL? Are we over sanitised and de-germed? I think we are wiping out our ability to cope with new germs, bacteria etc.

Sue xx

Exactly SueMaid.

DL

I must be off to start my day. Thank you for an interesting thread Eldrick and some thought provoking comments DL.

Sue xx

*tuts* I thought my second bit was secular!

Ok, knuckles rapped... I was fairly serious, although the images on the link I put up were fairly gross, lol...


Homunculous man was partly an image put forward by those who were attempting to show how mankind would look if their evolution developed on the stimulation of nerves... and this is why the overlarge hands, tongue etc were depicted, this is where the nerves are concentrated, where we feel things... it's why we have sense of taste and smell, why a paper cut on the finger is so painful etc etc... so my thinking was that if we continue to live a life dedicated to those senses, then this would maybe how we would evolve.

However.... I think that nature has ways of culling us when we get too big for our boots, so to speak.... epidemics, diseases, and the like.

In poor countries, children don't survive childhood in the same numbers as in the more developed countries, but more children are born per couple....In the developed world, fewer babies are born, but more of them survive childhood. So a nebulous and precarious *balance* is created... I know that is a bad way of putting it, but my words aren't coming easily today, lol Sorry!

Adults in poorer countries die young, statistically, but the other side is that developed countries now have the obesity epidemic, which is shortening modern day lives in richer parts of the world.

Climate change is for real..... although I believe it to be more of a natural, cyclical phenomenum, rather than anything we are doing - that is not to say we are not contributing to an acceleration of that change, but it is fundamentally natural... exacerbated by us and our plunderings- so therefore, my inclination is to say a massive climatic event, involving much structural damage, re-formatting of the boundaries and shorelines of our world.... tectonic plates colliding, causing earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, icecaps being hurled like twiglets, massive storms, typhoons and hurricanes, tsunami by the dozen... flooding of reclaimed marshlands (like my little palace)... all in a short space of time. That is what will happen.... heaven knows what will cause it. Man or Nature?

I think people will survive that.... and would also survive a massive, manmade, nuclear strike..... but who knows in what guise?

I think mankind will survive, but will have to evolve in a way that we might not recognise at all..... and technically.... we would only need a small number women, and a sperm bank....

Not much fun.... and a long time to re-populate the world, I reckon. I like having men around....

Oh... and my SiL is Chinese (although Hong Kong born) and grieves so much.... she can't have children at all. She has family in China, her mother owns property there... but she is still unable to adopt a child from there... it breaks her heart to know that there have been people (two second cousins that she knows of) in her own family who have murdered their baby girls. And of course, there are now more boys than girls.......

Cruel world, isn't it?

Oh, 'ecky thump... my braincells are hurting now, lolol!!

Love

Daff xxxx

just touching on immune systems...did you see there is such a thing as 'man-flu-? apparently men really are the weaker sex in terms of immunity,

"Earlier this week, scientists linked 'man flu' with the early development of humanity.
The risky behaviour developed by males who had to hunt for food weakened their immune systems, a team from Cambridge University concluded. "