Earth Future: Peace (Opinion)

What do you think the future holds for the world? I think we will see world peace before the end of this century. That may mean the result of nuclear war and a NWO, but I think it will happen. I understand absolute peace is not possible, but we'll get pretty close. Any opinions out there? Are we destined to destroy ourselves, or grow-up?

I'd like to think that we can all grow up and learn to get along, but I don't see that happening without a major world-wide catastrophe. As a species, we are very violent and fear what we don't understand. I'd say that we are destined to either completely destroy ourselves and our planet or destroy so many of ourselves and so much of our planet that we are back in the dark ages with no contact with anyone on other sides of the world.

As the global population grows, conflicts over natural resources will become a normal occurrence and at some point nuclear weapon(s) will be used to take out a competitor or to defend natural resources. Imho the current conflicts in the ME are about oil, the life blood of many economies. While I disagree with the bush administrations representations that these conflicts are about terrorism, I do agree with the white that these conflicts will last a long time.

In order to bring peace it will be necessary to come to some global agreement on the sharing of the worlds natural resources, but I really dont see that happening without a great deal of death and destruction.

Peace