Re:Children of Men: The Future Is a Mirror for the Present
by AnimalMuppet on Monday November 09, 2026 @03:25PM
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> Functional human extinction in 120 years, absolute human extinction in 350 (or fewer).
I would love to see your basis for claiming this, because I don't believe a word of it.
My personal take is that, as population declines, we eventually won't be able to produce birth control pills (or plastic, if you believe that microplastics are the cause). A couple generations after that, the population decline will halt.
> Technological stagnation (no new advancement) in fewer than 50.
This I could at least see. Society requires a certain level of specialization in order to advance, and that requires a certain number of people. More technologically advanced societies may get by with fewer people, but there's still a lower limit, below which technological progress halts (or at least massively slows down).
I would love to see your basis for claiming this, because I don't believe a word of it.
My personal take is that, as population declines, we eventually won't be able to produce birth control pills (or plastic, if you believe that microplastics are the cause). A couple generations after that, the population decline will halt.
> Technological stagnation (no new advancement) in fewer than 50.
This I could at least see. Society requires a certain level of specialization in order to advance, and that requires a certain number of people. More technologically advanced societies may get by with fewer people, but there's still a lower limit, below which technological progress halts (or at least massively slows down).