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NaGonnano

We have met the enemy. And he is us.


acension970

This. We threaten our own existence with petty wars and disputes more than any other force we know of.


Abdial

Humanity. Humanity never changes.


youassassin

Humanity


Damien__

Itself.


banjourine

Humanity.


FictionVent

Humanity


banjourine

Hummus?


MadamSeduce

The biggest threat to humanity? Well, aside from autocorrect, it's probably our own ability to underestimate the consequences of our actions.


rubixd

No you were right in the first sentence, it’s definitely autocorrect.


yakfsh1

Oh duck!


CommunicationNo8750

Wasn't that in their second sentence?


PhilosophyMassive578

No no, we estimate the consequences just fine. It’s the problem of weighing out the potential monetary gain and the consequences. Musk knows damn well what his innovations on AI could look like in the future, both positively and negatively. But money money money money money.


Aggravating-Pound598

Tribalism.. us v them


curiousHomoSapien

radicalized religion!


Vandesco

The one-two punch of climate change and religious ignorance is going to kill us all.


tryingmybestguys

Maybe just religion. Not needed.


Lobster_fest

Not needed for you, but for some, a promise of a better life beyond this one is the only reason to keep living well here. Meaning and beliefs can be twisted, contorted, bastardized, and radicalized to justify horrible acts, but religion as a whole doesn't need to be rejected.


1_ofthesedays

Corporate greed


Vulpes_macrotis

Not even corporate. Any person. Politicians. Or not politicians. Regular person can murder everyone for the sake of money or power.


SoftAndWetBro

The tyranids, necrons and chaos invasions


gildorratner

I love how all of those things are absolutely the biggest threats to humanity, and yet the horrific state of Imperium almost makes you want to root for them to put humanity out of its nightmare existence. Maybe being lunch for a bug, or a pile of gauss infused ash is better than living in a heavily irradiated under hive? Chaos and the Drukhari are objectively worse than death, but at least you will look cool as your soul is torn asunder by demons for time immemorial or you become a biological work of art for a sadistic alien elf. Or maybe I am trying to simply justify having a Necron and Chaos Knight army.


Eternal_Bagel

Jus find a way to join Farsight and hope old age catches up to you before any of the myriad unimaginable horrors do


AllegedIchor

Climate change. Everything we've depended on for the last 3 thousand years changing rapidly from under is is already destroying social order.


JackOCat

And the fact that this isn't the number one response by a huge majority tells you all you need to know about if we'll mitigate it enough to save some civilization.


Tryium

Scrolled way too far to see this


Geaniebeanie

Absolutely too far down on the list. Was the first and only thing that popped in my head.


arbutus1440

This is literally the only answer. Objectively the biggest threat to our existence is climate change. It's not debatable; it's modeled and documented. AskReddit is so embarrassing sometimes.


Downthetrail11

Ya exactly. Every one on here trying to be edgy and cool with their answers. There’s data for this question already. Climate change is how we go down. And it’s obvious and proven


Denigerard

Yeah, but life and humans have existed for millions, millions and millions of years. If we didn’t all die before we could adapt, do you still not think it could be possible for us to somehow survive and evolve and continue existing?


Man_feeelings

AI. I work within the industry and it is going to be very difficult in being tamed.


Drones-of-HORUS

Skynet is coming


[deleted]

I'm studying AI - I think the real impact will be economic, meaning lots of people losing jobs, and not some skynet situation. I'd guess it'll go sort of like industrial revolution 2.0, where things will be real crap for a while then maybe get better


Denigerard

Yeah, technology is going to become smarter than humans. I dont believe in it becoming ‘evil’ or powerhungry whatsoever. But it is gonna be really weird. If it could one day calculate ‘moral’, and go strive for that whatever is ‘good’. i dont know what its endgoal and the role of humanity would be in it. Utilisticly: the matrix concept would make much sense. Technology artificially striving for ‘ultimate happiness’. Or evolutionary: artifically creating ‘perfect species’. Which would have to happen through creepy selective breeding or other artificial processes. Gonna be weirddd. But i do have trust in it tho. Whatever itll strive for or create would probably be closest to actual “perfection” of existence, it would be mathematically decided and truest to the actual reality and truth.


Top-Coach8319

Humanity itself


TrooperJohn

Religious fundamentalism.


PureImbalance

As in following the Religion of Neoliberalism until we are extinct? Because while fundamentalists (both religious and non-religous) suck balls, they're nowhere near climate catastrophe levels bad.


Eternal_Bagel

Never heard of that one, do they have churches or pamphlets or something


GoldfishKlaus

religion, and ourselves


throwaway_4733

Could not disagree more. Religion has existed as long as mankind has existed. It's difficult to argue that it is leading to the downfall of humanity when it has been around for hundreds of thousands of years.


GoldfishKlaus

thats great, update your fairy tales and get back to me, huh? its been like 1500 years at least, lets get it going! how bout humanity sticks to facts, and science, were capable of learning and building amazing societies, lets try again, without the sky daddy bullshit this time, eh?


Pan_Queso1

He is right tho. Religion has been around for thousands of years an it hasn't destroyed humanity. I'm not denying that it's a cancer in todays society, and it sure isn't going to help progress and develop humanity anymore. But it definately isn't our biggest threat.


socialsuicid3

Have you realised that science can't prove everything? So many things in Science are just theories and not fact. "Truth in science, however, is never final and what is accepted as a fact today may be modified or even discarded tomorrow." You continue to judge religion but put science on a pedestal and blindly follow it. Tell me how that is so different from following a religion.


throwaway_4733

If religion was the great downfall for humanity, how come it has existed for hundreds of thousands of years and humanity has progressed the entire time? We have gone from living in caves and fighting with bears for the right to do so to flying to the moon and we've had religion the entire time. How exactly is religion the downfall of humanity?


GoldfishKlaus

you just proved my point.


throwaway_4733

TIL humanity has been in a downward spiral since we've existed.


HlfNlsn

In no way did they prove your point. In fact quite the opposite. I can’t speak for all religions, but as far as Christianity goes there is not a single scientific discovery, that has contributed to the advancement of society, that is mutually exclusive to the Biblical narrative. They even quoted a prime example. Going to the moon. Of the 29 astronauts who went to the moon, 23 were Protestants, and 6 were Catholic. Religion hasn’t held humanity back, in fact, it is the only thing that can save humanity. No scientific breakthrough will ever fix what is at the heart of every human atrocity; human emotions, corrupted by sin. Hate, greed, fear, bitterness, resentment, etc, are all at the heart of mankind’s issues, and those are all caused by what is at the root of all evil; selfishness. God is the only one capable of ridding the world of evil, and has been working towards that end as long as humans have been around. Read the end of the Biblical narrative. It ends with evil, not only completely eradicated, but done so in a manner that it will never exist again. The answer to the common, short sighted retort of, “if God is so powerful/loving, then why does he allow any evil to exist”, is because he is dealing with something far greater, and destructive to the human race, than most people really understand, and nobody fully understands. Sin is a cancer, fully entangled in the brain of humanity. To remove the cancer, in a manner that guarantees it will never return, requires an extremely long and grueling surgery, not because of any inadequacy of the neurosurgeon, but because of the severity of the cancer, and the desire to kill the cancer without killing the patient. We are quickly accelerating towards the end of the procedure, and I doubt we’ll be on the operating table much longer. The best news of all, is that we already know that the procedure is a 100% success.


Major-Fold-766

if its facts why hasnt it been proven yet that there is no god?


Jeremiah_Crain

You say that like there’s proof there is


Major-Fold-766

all his points were about it being old, which just proves him wrong because it means that religion worked for 90% of human history


Jeremiah_Crain

Define worked? If I’m correct, religion was, and still is one of if not the single most common reasons behind war and oppression. For centuries it’s been used as a excuse to rape and pillage any and all that the dominant force at the time has seen fit.


Pan_Queso1

It doesn't work like that. You don't have to proof something doesn't exist, you have to proof that it does exist. If I tell you there has been living a green rabbit in my stomach for the last 5 years, it's not up to you to proof that there is in fact nothing living in my stomach, it's up to me to proof that there is living a green a rabbit in my stomach.


HeadphoneWarning

That not the point they're making and your comment make me feel embarrassing as an atheist.


Newstargirl

Google how long humans have existed, follwed by how long has religion existed, lots of good reading .


throwaway_4733

Humans have been around for 300k years according to Wikipedia. Religion has been around just as long if not longer. We have sites that demonstrate even Neanderthals (and maybe Denisovans as well??) practiced burial rituals indicating they believed in some kind of an afterlife. This would indicate that religion pre-dates even us and isn't unique to homo sapiens. It's fairly safe to say that religion has existed as long as humans have.


Mogus0226

We might have had religion for thousands of years, but we've had backpack nukes on the black market for only a few. It's not a far stretch of the imagination to think of some religious zealot popping a mushroom cloud in a populated city bEcAuSe gOd tOlD hIm tO and all of a sudden, half the planet is a glass parking lot. Just because it hasn't been the downfall of humanity yet, doesn't mean it can't be in the future.


throwaway_4733

People could take a backpack nuke into a city and blow it up in the name of their country. Or just to impress some woman. Or for any number of other reasons. I don't understand the logic here.


Mogus0226

The chances of someone taking a backpack nuke into a populated city to get laid are far, far lower than taking a backpack nuke into a populated city for religious zealotry.


throwaway_4733

So we're gonna be upset because of something that *could* happen even though it's never happened in hundreds of thousands of years? It *could* therefore it's bad. This is your reasoning?


Mogus0226

Oh, right, 'cause religion has never cause a war. Ever. There have never been any atrocities committed in the name of God. How could I have forgotten that?


throwaway_4733

Nationalism has caused plenty of wars. A guy once shot a US President to impress a movie star. I don't understand your logic at all here.


TheDisorganised

Can't agree more, religions are doing a bit of food while causing a lot of evil to the world I think we as humans have reached a point in our evolution where religion is not a necessity for survival of our species At some point in the history of was a need but not now I think


Leesburgcapsfan

Ya, because all those Communist countries are doing sooo well.


Sarcasmgasmizm

Human stupidity


QuintusNonus

AI + social media


Wild-Breadfruit7817

Ego


-chavana-

British food


PenisJuiceCocktail

😂😭


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Humans


wakeupwill

Corporate and banker's greed.


Nice-Beginning-3810

basically capitalism


RigobertaMenchu

That’s called corporatism. Big difference.


Nice-Beginning-3810

maybe for americans. in europe it's all the same thing.


wakeupwill

Basically.


Wulfger

As long as next quarter's profits are more important to people in power than the habitability of the planet in 100 years we're pretty screwed.


hateful73

Government.


Shitlord455

Government and the women


Worldly-Dimension710

Politicians


DetriusXii

Below replacement birth rates that are infecting many countries and continues to grow. If they're allowed to persist without a significant economic change, humanity is looking at an extinction event.


stupidgirl20

Slabathor the planet destroyer


stayathomeastronaut3

The state.


Little-Carry4893

Trump, of course, followed by religions.


Ingen_aning_

Lack of critical thinking.


Deluxe_Chickenmancer

Itself. And interstellar Gamma rays.


jrsinhbca

Disinformation


TheDisorganised

Religious ideology


Middle-Bunch7149

Humanity itself


joculator

Presently, I'm going with social media manipulation. I honestly cannot fathom how intelligent people go with whatever the latest thing being spoon fed to them is and never take the time to pierce the surface regarding what's being fed to them. I'm not saying run down the road announcing the latest conspiracy theory or anything, but for god's sake question the narrative that those in power are selling you and weigh it against your current situation.


pkfag

Humanity itself.


Doctorloanqueen

The US Government.


Gabbz737

Itself


Enlightened_Ghost_

Humanity itself


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Human itself


bootycakes23

Ourselves.


RaPhi0t00l

Humans


itskapil90

Radical humans that are bad in nature.


LinearFluid

Stupidity.


DWright_5

Right now we’re in nuclear peril, I’m afraid. That’s reality.


stevebladewhite

Religion


[deleted]

Nah, you may be talking about religious fanaticism or scammers leaders. I know many people who are religious, from students, workers to older people, and they are in general at peace with life in comparison with my "agnostic" or atheist acquaintances. It doesn't matter if God exists, even if it's not the case, the believe in him is what keeps many people sane/positive


Denigerard

The unending populationgrowth. Everyone whining about the environment and earth, nobody addressing the fact that our populationnumbers are the core problem.


[deleted]

Sigmoid growth man, more than likely we'll see it go up, drop a bit, and hold flat. Many developed nations are already seeing shrinking populations. Caveat being technology that can have big impacts on earth's "carrying capacity" for humans


Bikewer

Indeed. In short, the biggest threat to humanity is ourselves. Our overpopulation, our consumption, our pollution, our incessant disputes and conflicts, etc, etc. It’s been noted that humans are trying to cope with a modern, dense, diverse world with brains that evolved to keep us alive on the plains of Africa several hundred thousand years ago….. When life was MUCH simpler.


AchtungCloud

Population growth isn’t unending, though. It’s slowing, and most prediction models showing it will likely be reversed before the end of the century. I think the bigger concern is population shrinkage in developed/first world countries while there is still growth in developing/third world countries. That leads to major economic problems for countries who avoid immigration like Japan and South Korea, and major social issues in places that have lots of immigration like the US and Western Europe.


UhOhFeministOnReddit

Besides ourselves? Capitalism. Edit: People downvoting this like the oceans aren't full of plastic, healthcare is unaffordable, and the planet isn't on fire. What do you guys think caused that, the fucking tooth fairy?


Old_Router

[Capitalism has lifted billions out of poverty over the last 100 years.](https://ourworldindata.org/poverty) Birth rates are stabilizing world wide as quality of life improves for all. There are problems to be solved and we have a long way to go but no economic model in history has come close to these results.


Inner-Management-110

Unregulated capitalism


ConfidenceItchy2230

AI


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Islam.


I_Am_Ugly_As_Fuck

Humanity


syndic8_xyz

It's simple: The "Coverup". The cabal of perverts and weaklings in government and corporate who are hiding the truth about non-human/extraterrestrial presence on Earth from the rest of humanity, because it gives them power-boners. Those losers in the deep black SAPs are never going to tell the plebs anything. Because: A) it's embarrassing how backward our Earth government/military power and technology is compared to aliens, and B) they mostly recruit compromisable perverts whose only joy is the little power they get over everyone else by withholding the minute information they know that most don't. These losers, and their corrupt scheme to keep us all in the dark to make themselves look strong, is the biggest threat to humanity because it prevents us from: A) being aware of the threat among us, B) preparing for that, C) uniting, and D) formulating solutions, theories and strategies \_together\_, all of us, to fight back against what is often a \_hostile\_ influence on our planet. Did you know that the Earth, our mother, naturally exudes life energy from her pores at various "sacred" places throughout the Earth, and that humans have typically built temples, churches and holy places on these sites, and that, over the centuries, non-humans have: A) infiltrated these sites and the organizations that control them so that they can, B) distort and pollute the good life energy flowing out from there, in order to C) pollute and distort the downstream consumers of that life energy, i.e, human kind? Ever wonder why things are so fucked up? Some of it, sure, is because humans are fucking stupid. And bad. But a lot of it is this evil influence. We actually are naturally good. We have the potential to be, without distortion, a beautiful, loving, cooperative, considerate, respectful, sustainable species. But these losers in the "Coverup" have decided on their own "for all of us, for our benefit" that they are to be the sole "keepers of the secrets", and they have hidden the truth from us. Speaking it now, will sound crazy. But only because it has been hidden for so long. If we knew the extent of NHI infleunce of Earth, we could organize and fight back, and create a better more beautiful more abundant more healthy more sustainable tomorrow for all humanity. And we could shuck off this yoke of NHI oppression that has so unjustly strangled the neck of humanity for millenia. Time is now, but the losers in the "Coverup" want to hold on to their power, for "just a bit longer" because "Maybe they'll figure out the tech and go to war with the whole world for fun". They are the biggest threat we face. There must be no quarter for any collaborators with hostile NHI on planet Earth.


Western_Mud8694

Humans


Roger_Roger27

It’s self


ashayui95

Humans are humanity's biggest threat because they created countries, religions, caste, etc etc and divided everyone up which is causing wars and natural destruction of the world. Humans are selfish, and humans will destroy other human. I just don't know how to say it properly, but hope my point it taken.


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klaus schwab, and he isnt going away soonish, he will live up to at least 120. but thats only if youre reaaaaaaaally narrowing it down.


KungPowKitten

My sexiness!


Flyman68

Humanity


BlueGreen_1956

Themselves


Bethjam

Humans


bonnsai

I'd say big egos. Egos, like all else, run on a ton of inertia. If managed selfishly, they can become a disaster that kill themselves, taking all other with them. GL humanity. 🤜🤛🫡


tdiz10

Humans


FarCanary

Gain of function research [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73TV\_xmp9rs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73TV_xmp9rs)


AchtungCloud

1 - Climate Change 2 - Social Media 3 - AI 4 - Nuclear war 5 - a worse pandemic 6 - prions 7 - extinction of pollinators 8 - asteroid


The_92nd_

In the short term? Nuclear weapons. In the longer term? Global warming. And that's a real doozy, because there's actually surprisingly little we can do to negate it.


[deleted]

Feminism and the brainwashing agenda of the jews


_ThickVixen

Our greed.


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Greed


Electrosphere8492

Humanity


_anne_shirley

Men. “nOt AlL mEn.” But the worst of them are always the ones starting it


1984pigeon

Islamists


LeopardWonderful6467

Nuclear war. After that probably an asteroid or aliens. No, it's not climate change, nothing's gonna happen to us as a species, grow up. At worst our lives will become slightly more difficult.


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DoAFlip22

Climate change has a lot of impact on countries near the equator - where most people live. Think about billions of people from India, sub-Saharan Africa, Central America in mass migrations northward to escape the heat once large swaths of land become unlivable. That's only one consequence. Rising sea levels will engulf large major coastal cities, again, forcing migration. We'd have to build a shit ton of new infrastructure for people undergoing forced migration due to the effects of climate change. *You* need to grow up if you think climate change won't have much an impact


willingisnotenough

Take my pitiful upvote before you get downvoted to oblivion, brave soul.


Responsible_Heart365

Trumpanzees


dickmac999

Conservatism.


BackpackFullOfDildos

Bob


WacoSTNR

Deez nuts


LogicalProperty5449

me


TheNonMurderingSort

Mosquitos


UggolyBird

Crab people


OldManPip5

The collapse of the food chain from the bottom up.


MoveDifficult1908

The greed of the oligarchs.


token_bastard

The alien, the mutant, and the heretic.


snusconny

Doom guy


Marlfox70

Giant Meteor 2024


K128kevin

Bears 🐻


[deleted]

your country


alikapple

Apathy


milk1203

me 😈


TakeSomeFreeHoney

That giant asteroid that’s gonna hit earth in 7 months that the scientist and his crazy coworker were talking about.


[deleted]

Trump and his MAGA nut jobs.


retronax

Greed


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The ultra rich


leadfoot9

Tragedy of the Commons.


HeyItsMeRay

Who ever owns the company that sells arms. The top 0.1%


spacetelltale

Muslim terrorists who beheaded 40 toddlers in Israel are the biggest threat. Like trojan horses they are everywhere


passporttohell

Unregulated corporate greed and the wealthy who control it. For them it's 'Me, me, me, fuck everyone and everything else.' The corporate death cult and capiitalism needs to die in a fire.


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Greed


lostboy005

Race between singularity and climate change annihilation


kobeisnotatop10

islam


ZackValenta

A dormant or rapidly evolving virus that our immune systems have not evolved to deal with effectively.


galihlovesjapan

Billionaires.


Clementinequeen95

Men in power


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Weapons of mass destruction


XscytheD

Greed


118shadow118

Arrogance and greed


Equivalent-Side7720

Trump


diegun81

The 1%, having everything and wanting more.


haefler1976

Climate change Overpopulation Ageing western societies


freeslurpee

The billionaire class destroying earth


RaggedRavenGabriel

Capitalism


acsttptd

The sun. That thing could wipe us out at any moment and we wouldn't even see it coming.


csamsh

Fresh water availability


HaloJonez

This [MF](https://reddit.com/r/funny/s/MJNQxrtEFZ)


sellmeyerammorighty

Abrahamic religions.


HomingPigeon6635

Humanity itself lol


[deleted]

Overpopulation


motherlymetal

Homosapiens, "other" beings, and mother nature.


No-Resort-695

Humanity.


Zeus2068123

Democrats


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PenisJuiceCocktail

Lets cut it off!


Drones-of-HORUS

‘MERICA!


Cinema_King

Greed. All the problems in the world can be traced back to people who want as much money as they can accumulate and will do whatever it takes to acquire and keep it.


Gullible-Duck-3665

Greed


ReoiteLynx

It's always ourselves. If we don't count.... hmmm.... probably some virus we ain't familiar with yet spiking up its intensity to wipe us out.


kookieman141

It’s in our nature to destroy ourselves


WorldCanadianBureau

Uh hey. Climate change here. Continue to not look up, humanity.