The article doesn't question that the human species will survive: > This implies that some humans would survive, eventually to repopulate the planet, and that

The article doesn't question that the human species will survive: > This implies that some humans would survive, eventually to repopulate the planet, and that a species-level extinction of Homo sapiens is unlikely even after a full-scale nuclear war. But the vast majority of the human population would suffer extremely unpleasant deaths from burns, radiation and starvation, and human civilization would likely collapse entirely. Survivors would eke out a living on a devastated, barren planet.