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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The only way humans' progeny will exist for millions of years is if we manage to make it through the great filter and spread out to other planets, assuming we can find planets suitable for open-environment habitation.

We're quite good at making more of ourselves than is sustainable, so the only way of keeping ourselves going that long is to spread out.

Of course by then I'm sure several new species of humans will have emerged.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Overpopulation doesn't usually lead to extinction. Mass die-offs sure, but not extinction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Human birth rates are already trending towards decline and have reached it in most wealthy nations. Overpopulation is not a concern. What is a much more serious threat is humans living far beyond their means, destroying the environment from inside their unsustainable suburbs. But poor populations live much more sustainably than places like America.