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Is the Planet Earth destined to be a planet of just water?

I think that the Planet Earth is eventually going to be a planet of just water, I think that will be the end of its evolutionary cycle. Anyone care to comment?

Public Comments

1. Nothing (or virtually nothing) disappears from the Earth, it just changes chemically, so ice may change to water, covering some of the land masses, but it can't flood the whole planet.
2. earth is essentially a planet of rock, but if all the ice caps melt through global warming, there will only be a tiny amount of the land mass left , so you could be right..<^><...
3. Sure, that seems reasonable, if by a water planet you mean one where water covers the entire surface. Erosion is always leveling the earth, but uplift from crustal movement and magma upwelling inside the earth continuously raises land up to offset the erosion. When the heat pump inside the earth finally shuts down, land uplift will stop, and eventually all land above the surface of the water will be washed into the oceans. The amount of land above sea level is no where near enough to fill the ocean basins.
4. if we can move on from our petty desires like going for drives in cars and taking a walk instead until we have found better ways to deal with our waste or not produce them we may continue to evolve but sit in these habits spell doom.