Salt-Water Fish Extinction Seen By 2048

[Oneironaut]

19. Humans aren't a smart enough species to avoid destruction.

We're bound by the same problem every animal has on earth (if given the opportunity). If our population grows too large, we eat everything around us out of existence (which, unfortunately, happens to be the whole planet). Then, when resources become scarce, we die in huge numbers until we're well below our carrying capacity. We're over our capacity now, so we're on borrowed time.

There's no incentive as a species not to kill ourselves by consuming all available resources. We're not a rational species. We settle the cognitive dissonance of what we're doing by telling ourselves that it's all a bunch of lies, that technology will prevent it from happening, and that it's really not going to be as bad as it seems. I don't see a future for current society beyond 200 years from now.