Many are concerned about the loss and extinction of many animal species, but very rarely (if never) are humans species part of the debate.

Nicole Kidman once said that "that people should live to eork, not work to live."

A number of people are taking various views on the loss of humans on this planet:

1. Big business "working people to death" for profit.

2. Climate change impacting on human health. "The Earth is warming so rapidly that unless humans can arrest the trend, we risk becoming "extinct" as a species, a leading Australian health academic has warned.

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/climate-change/climate-change-could-make-humans-extinct-warns-health-expert-20140330-35rus.html

3. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, who see protection of other living species important - not just humans. Many will potentially find this "movement" very strange, if not funny.

http://www.vhemt.org/aboutvhemt.htm#serious

What do people think? Could humans disappear off the face of this planet?

read the book if you really want to know Nathan.I suggest you read Peters secnd epistle. The gw faith (previously the Greenhouse and cooling doctrine guys) have no idea. They make it up and use pseudo science to back their fantasies. Ask Flannery, Gore and the IPCC, they has been exposed numerous times. Then again our intelligent evolutionist tell us that we are evolving into higher forms. How gullible can people be.

"A number of people are taking various views on the loss of humans on this planet:"

What loss of humans are you referring too? There are 7 billion and the number is growing exponentially.

"Could humans disappear off the face of this planet?" I doubt it, but I do believe halving the number word be a good start.

Don't worry about climate change; the population is increasing much faster that the oceans are warming or rising

It's a certainty: it may happen sooner or it may happen later, but eventually humans will be extinct.

Our bodies are but instrumental for our spirit.
Hopefully we won't need them much longer, but in the unfortunate case that human bodies are no longer available before completing our spiritual journey, then some different bodies in some different galaxy or even some different universe will become available to enable us to complete our journey back to God.

Will the human species become extinct?

Yes.

Dear Nathan,

In the modern industrialised world,
we often feel insulated from nature
and confident that our technology can give us
mastery over the natural environment.

We forget all too easily that we too are animals, ultimately
dependent on the environment for our survival as any other
species.

In industrialised societies many people see nature primarily
as a resource for exploitation. As our "needs" increase,
our capacity for exploitation expands. Many don't see the
ravaging of our environment as "ravaging" at all; it is
"progress" or "development." We're so used to exploiting
our natural resources and dumping our waste products into
the environment that we frequently forget that resources are
limited and exhaustible and that pollution can disrupt the
ecological balance on which our survival depends.

All over the world, and especially in the less developed
societies, the pressure of the human population and its
technologies is devastating natural ecosystems.

This pressure takes many forms - urbanisation and highway
construction, transformation of virgin land into farmland,
chemical pollution of fresh water, dredging and landfill in
coastal areas, uncontrolled hunting and poaching, especially
African wildlife, deliberate and accidental poisoning of
wildlife with pesticides, disruption of natural predator-prey
relationships, strangulation of millions of birds and fish
with discarded Styrofoam pellets, plastic bags, and other
synthetic flotsam, dam construction and irrigation,
and massive deforestation.

Most people realise that the planet has a finite amount of
resources or that it can tolerate only a limited amount of
pollution.

However,
if world population continues to grow rapidly, if
industrialisation spreads around the world, I would say that
to your question - will the human species become extinct?
The most optimistic answer would be that one way or another -
sweeping social changes await us.