04-22-2009, 04:51 AM
Just look at Chernobyl. That place has been abandoned and is now dissolving before our eyes. I didn't see this show but I can imagine. As far as extinction is concerned, it is difficult to say. Individuals of the human species have some distinct but very specialized survival tools, but the human society as a whole probably has more destructive than constructive force when it comes to living in the natural world (i.e. destructive due to the power that individuals now possess, destructive because the society as a whole doesn't have the power to stop errant individuals). It would not take too much to decimate the human race to the brink of extinction...a single large bolide impact could completely destroy our ecosystem if we don't do it ourselves.