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I suspect we have more immediate problems than "can we survive the next n billion years".

• 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
  There have already been close calls with nukes. No way in hell we last another hundred.
  • NoMoreNicksLeft 1y ago
    If only it was nukes. I'm afraid we're more likely to go out with a whimper. The fertility rates have plummeted and there's no reason to believe those will rise back to replacement level.
    • larholm 1y ago
      There is also no reason to believe that the fertility rates would go to zero. To an outside observer, we might simply be reaching a new equilibrium. The idealized Star Trek society of production automation and exploratory self fulfillment might only be possible, and sustainable, if we are a billion people. That is still plenty enough people to continue our ever accelerating and vast exploration of culture, science and space.