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Screw depression, overpopulation due to nobody dying, yet birth rates not declining is what would have killed us long before that, through all the wars and fami
by pferde 7y ago
Screw depression, overpopulation due to nobody dying, yet birth rates not declining is what would have killed us long before that, through all the wars and famines.
- patrickk 7y agoEven bigger could be a lack of progress and stagnation, due to the dominant paradigm sustaining itself indefinitely. As the saying goes "graveyards are full of indispensable men", and "science advances one funeral at a time". This could mean a total lack of evolution in science, technology, philosophy, and so on.
- pferde 7y agoEven bigger what? I was talking about what would physically kill most of us off, whereas what you mention would make the humanity merely stagnate. While not ideal, stagnation at least brings stability of sorts.