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Re:Japan’s population drops by nearly 800k by Tozen on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:49AM (#36877664)
> the human population will equal 0 someday because we will have further evolved into something else.

Ah, there are other possible paths. 1) Extinction (which has happened to many species) without any evolutionary successors. 2) Artificial life (it evolves without us). 3) Something else evolves (long after we are gone) and becomes the dominant species on the planet.

Humanity has limited options, but nature doesn't and we can't count on it doing us any favors.

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Re:Japan’s population drops by nearly 800k by dredmorbius on Thursday July 27, 2023 @02:44AM (#36889821)
"...there are other possible paths..."

Hence @quantified's "managed properly" caveat.

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