Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:
> On a bit of a tangent, I do agree that it's highly unlikely that 
> humanity as a whole is in any danger of actual extinction in the near 
> future.

  Yeah, humans are rather good at surviving too. Where other uber-survivor
species are tough, humans have really good brains, and those are rather
useful for surviving, so even a really enormous (human-caused) ecocatastrophe
is most probably not going to kill every single person on Earth. In the
worst case scenario it might be that modern civilization as we know it
might crumble and humanity will return to the middle ages (in an environment
much less hospitable than back then), but it most probably won't kill them
all out. If because of nothing else, it will be because at some point the
modern civilization will be so destroyed that it will be incapable of
continuing the destruction of the ecosystem, which will allow the ecosystem
to slowly start recuperating (during the next few thousands of years or so).

  If the human species some day goes extinct, it will most probably be
something not caused by humans themselves (such as for example a world-wide
lethal pandemia or similar).

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