HOW LONG WILL HUMAN RACE SURVIVE?

The human race is nearly two hundred thousand years old. Perhaps we are the youngest species of all life forms on earth except the fast mutating mono cellular organisms and viruses. All other primates, mammals and reptiles have inhabited this earth for longer periods.
The advent of man on earth was a land mark in the history of this planet and that of the universe known to us. Unlike other animals and life forms on earth, man is the creator of his own destiny and that of the planet itself. Till recently, man has been more or less like other animals depending on the nature for his livelihood and survival. Not that, even now, he is totally independent of nature - but he lives in a transformed environment. Instead of the energy produced by the intake and assimilation of foods into his system for his activities, he has come to depend more and more on the energy released from the fossil fuels. This has tremendously enhanced the scope and reach of his activities.
Plenty in the availability of foods always influences the number of any species. For example, when the bamboo flowers once in half a century in the north eastern states of India, mice and rats multiple in astonishing rates playing havoc to crops. During this period the rodent population explodes owing to the increased availability of food. Similarly, when man invented agriculture, and started farming in organized and mechanical ways, availability of foods improved and consequently human population has reached more than seven billion.
The Wisdom of Nature, which some people would like to call God, is amazingly superior to human intelligence: in fact human intelligence is only a minor subset of the Universal Intelligence. This all-encompassing wisdom has decreed that on the planet earth, the number of such and such species, be it an animal or tree or plant, should not exceed a certain limit. If it does, it will be at the expense of other species. The increase in the number of deer in a given system will exert great pressure on the system. To counter this, the population of predators like tigers and leopards will increase. The triggering factor will be increased availability of prey. If the deer population dwindles owing to the increased predator population, the predators will have less food and therefore, fewer kids. In some cases mothers themselves may eat up the cubs.
It is simple logic that man is but another mammal and if human population exceeds the permissible limit, the limit beyond which other life forms on earth will face irreversible ruin, the Ultimate Wisdom will see that human population is cut down to a reduced level.
Human civilization and technological advancement have made the planet a global village and movement of people from one place to another cannot be stopped. It therefore follows that, if the ultimate ruin or near extinction of human race is destined to be through a pandemic, no force can prevent it. Governments around the globe put up frantic efforts to prevent the spread of the bird flu virus and the H1N1 virus without any result. In a few months the virus reached every nook and corner of the globe. If nature opts to prune down human population to the first century level with a pandemic like the Spanish flu, it is easier now than ever before. Only a few isolated tribes in the deep Amazonian forest or the still uncharted areas in Africa or Asia might survive. Human population will go back two or three millennia both in number and sophistication.
There is certainly some inbuilt mechanism by which both the number and material advancement of human race will be kept in check. It may the climate change. It may be a meteoric shower. A nuclear war or any other momentous event which will send a shock wave around the world triggering the economic time bomb, which will annihilate the present day human civilization.
If Homo sapiens are allowed to multiply and mutilate planet earth for another half century, not only the human race but also other forms of life on earth will vanish for ever. The Ultimate is not likely to allow this to happen. It is likely that scattered and unconnected clans which have not so far got exposed to the comforts of the present day civilization will survive.
Scientific knowledge and technical innovations always depend upon the ideas left behind by past generations. You always step on the shoulders of the stalwarts of the past to attain newer heights. It would, therefore, be impossible for the survivors to reconstruct the sophistication of the present day world.
In other words, the cataclysmic end of the world, prophesied by seers and prophets, is certainly close at hand. In a way, there is some poetic justice in what is going to happen. Human hedonism has reached such a level that man will destroy not only himself but the planet itself if he is allowed to go on ‘progressing’ like this for half a century more.