A few hundred years from now...

I think the earth will most likely recycle itself. Being from NY, mostly everything is steel or concrete. Yes, it will collapse eventually, but I believe it'll be overtaken by the laws of plate tectonics. That is to say, it will become dirt and rock and recycle itself again.

And the world can survive another million years easily. We talk too much about "the end of the world," when honestly, it's people who are endangered by our own actions, not the planet in itself. (This isn't meant to account for nuclear war, in which case, nothing would survive.)

 

Worry not the church of the dark suger will heal your broken world you will love us and we will be kind to you

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLbtz91j-8o"]HENDRIX [ ELECTRIC CHURCH RED HOUSE ] AUDIO TRACK. - YouTube

 

The earth will take care of it. Don't worry.

 

In a few hundred years my great grandpa's coffin will still be in the same place. He was a steel worker and his resting bed is made out solid steel. It was a massive, beautiful, fucking heavy coffin, for a small man.

 

Dirt is really just sand that is mixed with eons of decomposed matter. And sand is just decomposed rocks

So when you go take a walk in the park, you are really just stepping on the last 500 years and more of filth.

In 500 years people will just be stepping all over us, what we built, what we achieved.....without even giving us a second thought

 

Roaches will survive.

 

twinkies too, mmm twinkies

 

The earth may live on and recycle itself, and heal over time... but i don't think humans will last long enough to see that day, food shortages, water shortages, just over population and pollution in general... our worlds going to get so crazy within the next 100-200 years i think... societies and the way we act will be completely changed i bet

Why are we coming up with such stupid pointless technology, such as Google Glass, anyone heard of that? We're wasting our time on that stupid shit that nobody needs, when we could be coming up with some helpful technology that will one day save our lives...

 

well the roaches will need something to eat.

 

There are some really specialized company's that blow up obsolete buildings of concrete and steel all the time. Every city evolves all the time, some neighbourhoods may be in ruins for half a century but even those get rebuild in time. It all goes on.
We are lucky we have some architecture left from over 500 years a go because if nobody cared about that stuff we would have even less insight in how cities developed over time. Yeah, old buildings of stone and wood freaking rule. I love them so much more than the common construction styles today. They really stand out in a renewed city centre, so much more style and culture radiate from it (in my humble opinion). Probably in a few centuries people will be intrigued by the architecture of our day and laugh suprised about our indifference of them if they knew of it. I'm sure it will look quite special from a different point of view.

 

The states will become one megalopolis as the outskirts of Portland Maine begin to blend with the outskirts of Boston to the south and Buffalo to the west. New York will merge with Hartford to the north and Philadelphia to the south and then all the way to Washington DC. and so on ….

Hotwater

 

there will be some very interesting garbage left behind for the few left alive to explore it. yes a lot of humanity will have been wiped out by famine and disease. food is going to get unbelievably expensive in previously first world places like the u.s. this is already happening right now. not just because of the economic instability but the great norther dustbowl of 2012, thanks to global warming.

maybe some animals that have gotten real smart will rebuild some kind of civilization. but that expanding cities bit, at some point, even if not for crop failures do to climate change, and we are already seeing those, but there's, you've got to have some land to grow food on, or the number of people there are will simply starve to death, and living in cities it takes transportation to get that food to them, and that's going to become more difficult too. because the car is one of the two biggest contributers to climate change, the other being coal fired power plants.

there are other ways we could be making electricity and other ways we could be propelling transportation by using it. these are the two biggest things.

that and we keep making larger populations we'll just have more people to be starving, and comming down with things because of weak imune systems from malnutrition.

we can't keep depending on cars and using combustion to make energy and expect to stop climate change from devistating food production and proliferating disease vectors.

and you know really the two biggest things, why we keep doing this stupid thing to ourselves, is because money, and then religion tells us we don't have to worry about it, becuase big daddy in the sky will make it all better or worse depending if we obay, while the money more and more controls what we are told to obey.

but blaming isn't itself going to help either, its the car and the coal power plant, really that's killing us, and we can have everything they give us without either one.

so how long the suffering will last, how close to completely we wipe ourselves out as a species, depends on how long we continue down this same road, that we've known was the wrong road, even before the problems started becoming as obvious as they are now.

the ruins of civilization can still be done stuff with, and there will still be someone to do it, but there may not be very many of those someones, and they may even not look so very much like any of us do now.