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Re:James Lovelock has died by gilleain on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @01:56PM (#32253969)
From an interview I read a couple of years ago, this part stuck out (paraphrased, from memory).

The interviewer asked something like "Are you optimistic about human survival?" and Lovelock's reply was, roughly - "Oh yes, I am optimistic. I mean, there might be a bottleneck of the population down to a few thousands, but long term we will survive".

Talk about the large-scale view.

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Re:James Lovelock has died by quickthrower2 on Wednesday July 27, 2022 @05:18PM (#32257112)
Surely “humans” are very unlikely to survive long term precisely because of evolution. Intelligent life probably will. But it might need to reboot from closer to the soup again.
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