Man kind will ravage the earth before it can colonize or begin to colonize a new planet.

Thank you. My opening statement is as follows: The world as we know it today has many challenge facing it in the future. Currently, the world struggles to solve international disputes, resource consumption, world hunger, etc. The future holds nothing better. Although man kind has made astronomical achievements in medicine, science, industrialization, politics and things of the sort, there are simple textbook problems which simply cannot be solved, only mitigated. A. Resource consumption. *sources [2] [3] [4] [5] [7] [8]* - In 1970's we saw a peak in oil production, and as the years have rolled on oil production has only peaked slightly since then, it has begun to decrease. This is a very textbook problem that has no solution. Now although there are clean alternatives and countries such as Spain have been able create half the energy they normally use on a regular day with clean alternatives, this system cannot be expected to work everywhere else. For example, solar is not a viable option due to the resources needed to built the giant panels if America for example were to do this in mass. Wind mills generate thousands of watts, however have tendencies to burn out, and obviously the wind doesn't blow every day. Clean energy cannot be used in mass due to its EROEI (basically energy returned for energy input). Shale has become the new horizon for many countries. Shale is very low in energy and needs lots of powered machinery in order to convert it into oil. All the worlds resources are expected to hypothetically last easily 100 years. This however is not true (I will explain why below). It is only a matter of time before all the finite resources on this planet are depleted, regardless of technological advances. B. Population growth in relation to resources. *Sources [1][5][6] * When the industrial revolution began, the world saw an immediate increase in its population. As a result the world boomed with advances, buildings, agriculture, technology, communication etc. Now, in 2014, after the world has seen two wars, and the destruction of so many economies and cities, somehow, the population still continues to soar. Currently there are 7,094,823,500 people in the world. The population is expected to grow to somewhere near 10 billion. In a world where oil is still declining, coal is declining and polluting, the demand for such resources increase. When the population increases in such a way, however many years of resources there would have been otherwise relative to our current population, would decrease by about a third if not more. With this being said one wonders two things. A. How much longer will the earth provide our race with resources. And B. How much longer can the human race live "here"? C. Colonization of other planets, not possible. The human race has looked to the stars for new inhabitable worlds for our kind to one day walk upon. Unfortunately, that's not a plausible option. In order to "Planet hop", we must develop rockets to transport us, and equipment their. We need the resources to fuel the rockets their and back and we need the money to do so (I will go into deeper explanation of this upon my opponents following speech). D. Political / economical problems. To be frank, in order to meet the needs of a growing population, a declining resource reserve in all major countries, douse worsening relations and mitigate the effects of whatever natural disasters man kind has caused, the only choice is to develop a "Globalize" government. There is a problem with this logic however. A global government cannot function on its own economically as there are no other entities to buy or trade from. The result is a form of communism, where the population works and creates products for the common good of the world in this case. Communism has its many downfalls as we all know. For the sake of debate though, let us picture a world where a globalize government occurs. When it sets forth to solve problems such as increasing population and energy consumption multiple things can happen: -population control= massacres, starvation,death by poverty and disease resulting in a smaller population. - control/resources = Sets forth to develop means to transport a growing population to another planet if one is found, and finds out that this is not possible for several reasons. Resources are then wrongly spent on certain projects, the population continues to rise with now even less resources and a government with no solutions to the problems facing them as a whole and only a few ways to mitigate the problems. As this continues, revolution stirs due to a high poverty rate and an elitist class which cannot solve these problems. This whole scenario resembles revolutionary France in the late 17th century. In the end, Marshall law is instated to protect the wealthy percent of the population, poverty remains constant, populations decrease as famine,disease and war continues, and leaves a population with little to no resources left and a collapsed civilization. In conclusion, The world cannot sustain a modern civilization for the reasons the Pro has provided. It is the burden of the Con to rebut these arguments and prove why modern civilization can sustain itself in the coming decades. sites: [1] http://www.census.gov... [2] http://www.scientificamerican.com... [3] http://people.hofstra.edu... [4] http://wind-power-problems.org... [5] http://topdocumentaryfilms.com... [6] http://www.globalchange.umich.edu... [7] http://www.npg.org... [8] http://www.census.gov...