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What could we do to increase our chances of lasting 1M years? I think it’s a useful thought experiment for thinking about what we could change to increase our
by Mistletoe 2y ago
What could we do to increase our chances of lasting 1M years? I think it’s a useful thought experiment for thinking about what we could change to increase our chances.
I do disagree with you though and think humans are like cockroaches now and there is a 0% chance of exterminating every last one of us and that’s a good thing. Nature had its chance at several bottlenecks in the past and failed.
>One of the greatest human bottlenecks occurred between 930,000 and 813,000 years ago, when the human population was reduced to about 1,280 breeding individuals for 117,000 years. This bottleneck may have brought human ancestors close to extinction.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7487
- leeoniya 2y ago> What could we do to increase our chances of lasting 1M years? honestly? get the population down. this means less consumption on an industrial scale and letting vital ecosystems recover. i can't imagine a good way of voluntarily cutting the pop by 50% and keeping it flat afterwards, but famine would do it.