Ockham's Cafe: Wednesdays in Cordova

How will Humanity end? For example, will we cause ourselves to become extinct or will we end as the result of something we could have never controlled? Will we be able to advance beyond any threat to infinity? Below, here are some optimistic and pessimistic takes on the topic.

http://www.vhemt.org/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1287643/Human-race-extinct-100-years-population-explosion.html

http://astro.berkeley.edu/~dperley/areopagus/apocalypse.html