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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by coldtea on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:52AM (#18281533)
>Sure, 99% of the population might die, the equator could become uninhabitable, and we might lose advanced tech in the ensuing wars, but it'll take much more than climate change to completely wipe out homo sapiens.

Why? Tons of other species have been wiped out very easily, and they didn't even contribute to their own demise as much as we did.

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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by newnewpdro on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:27AM (#18281703)
I think it's mostly because the same abilities enabling us to do so much long-term (self-)destruction in slow motion will enable at least some of us to always be able to conquer the immediate threats to survival.

No other species on the planet has attained a comparable ability to bend the environment to its needs like we have. Everything's had to evolve to live in differing conditions. We start fires, invent and build air conditioners, etc.

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Re:Mars likely to have enough oxygen to support life: study by dagw on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:36AM (#18281993)
Tons of other species have been wiped out very easily

Most of them due to an external force they could not begin to comprehend actively or accidentally trying to kill them (ie humans). Also we are on the whole smarter, more creative and better with tools than they where.

they didn't even contribute to their own demise as much as we did.

The fact the we actively contributed to our (potential) demise gives us a massive head start in that we understand and can see the problem coming in a way no other species could. Realistically anything that could wipe out humans would have to be something so completely alien and beyond our current understanding or control that we cannot even currently imagine it. Basically anything we can comprehend we can control for and counter.

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