• @[email protected]
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    -16 hours ago

    What a silly thing to say.

    You realise extinction requires no living specimens to exist right?

    Some number of humans will prevail even if the only thing left to eat is slime mold.

    Climate change is a big deal. The future is very bleak. People with the power to mitigate the damage are doing the opposite.

    Claiming that human extinction is possible or likely about as helpful as suggesting that ancient aliens have the solution.

    • YeetPics
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      32 hours ago

      Claiming that human extinction is possible

      What a silly thing to say, indeed. Of course it’s possible.

    • @LengAwaits
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      33 hours ago

      https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47540-7

      Don’t miss this bit:

      The bounds are subject to important limitations. Most importantly, they only apply to extinction risks that have either remained constant or declined over human history. Our 200 kyr track record of survival cannot rule out much higher extinction probabilities from modern sources such as nuclear weapons or anthropogenic climate change.

      • @[email protected]
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        -23 hours ago

        Oh sweetheart.

        Did you google “human extinction science” and link the first result without reading it?

        The part you quoted just says modern extinction risks are out of scope for this study.

        It does not say that extinction is probable or likely.