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this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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Pockets of humanity will endure this at least as well as they endured the Ice Age or the Toba Explosion. But there's around 8 billion of us bouncing around today. The transition down to something like even just 1 billion would be nightmarish to live through.
This isn't a question of humanity hitting the "off" switch nearly so much as it is asking ourselves how we want our grandchildren to live a century from now.