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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by rxhernandez on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:11AM (#23255023)
No, not equally argued. We didn't put asteroids into motion that can destroy the earth's ability to sustain human life. I'm sure you could infinitely fill a list of things we have no control over that could make humans extinct.
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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by torwayburger on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:17AM (#23255049)
Agreed. Those are non human events. I was literally referring to all the human activity that could end in extinction, though.
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Re:Mount Everest is visible from Kathmandu for first time in... by baddox on Thursday May 21, 2020 @01:25AM (#23255095)
Forced stagnation might be able to effectively eliminate human-caused extinction, but you still have to worry about the external extinction events (like changes in solar output, or asteroids, or supernovae).

But without stagnation, yes, you have the human-caused problems to worry about, but you also have people working to solve those problems, as well as people working to solve the external problems.

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