However, most innovations have not reach a majority of the population. If they had, they might have been significant enough to precipitate another surge. The activities of 5.7 billion humans, with many more to come, portend ominous consequences for the future of life as we know it. Already, there has been a significant increase in green-house gases, particularly carbon dioxide associated with fossil fuel burning. The predicted impacts of global warming upon climate, if true, are very disturbing.
Potable water is hard to come by and getting harder.
Plants and animals are becoming extinct at an alarming rate. It is this last item that may forebode the worst consequences for humans. Frogs are Dying All around the Earth, populations of most species of frogs and toads are declining. Not only are the adults dying, but a majority of their eggs are not hatching and most of the few hatched polliwogs are dying as well. Meanwhile, a very few species of frogs and toads are thriving.