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> The idea that the human population being reduced to a tiny fraction of what it once was is totally survivable isn't undisputed fact. That would mean it is a
by candiodari 7y ago
> The idea that the human population being reduced to a tiny fraction of what it once was is totally survivable isn't undisputed fact.
That would mean it is a metaphor since this wouldn't end the human race.
- cthalupa 7y agoI'm saying that if some event brings the human population to .1% immediately and then that .1% dies out in the future because it cannot sustain itself, that event might as well have directly ended the human race, even if some remnant lingers on temporarily.
- candiodari 7y agoIt's 0.000004286% of the human population that would be considered a minimum viable population size, and of course that's considered stable. We know human population was less than that at least twice in history. For the vast majority of human history human population was about 0.000171429% of what it is now. Both are vastly less than the .1% you claim to be fatal. What is your basis for claiming this number would end the human species ?