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Is that a bad thing? All other animals have population collapses from time to time and it redresses the balance. I don't see it as particularly catastrophic.

Of course, now this reduces to how we define catastrophe, and we obviously have a difference. But I see a halving of the human population hardly a catastrophe at all, whereas the permanent extinction of species a much worse thing.



> the permanent extinction of species a much worse thing

Fair enough, but then I'll point you to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_extinction_events

No matter how you slice it, these are far from the worst of times.


From the chart. "Holocene extinction c. 10,000 BC – Ongoing Humans[3]"

We are literally in an extinction event right now.


Sure. But not all extinction events are created equal. Compare the holocene with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin...

or even:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_e...

BTW, humans would almost certainly not exist were it not for the KT event.




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