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Re:Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6th by 8note on Thursday November 24, 2022 @12:38AM (#33728089)
I don't think the long painful decline for humans at the end is an avoidable thing.

Eventually there will only be iron stars around in the universe, and it will be exceedingly difficult to increase the entropy of the universe with them

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Re:Earth might be experiencing 7th mass extinction, not 6th by alistairSH on Thursday November 24, 2022 @09:49AM (#33731867)
By that point, any remaining people likely won’t be recognizably human, so I’m not overly concerned about that. Plus, that’s billions of years off.

Climate damage that begins to kill off my great-grand kids (probably through water wars or similar), who I could conceivably see born, is a very real possibility.

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