[crucialfelix]

Humans will survive. There is far too much money to be made for the game to end. We will survive for centuries. It will get gorier and nastier, but we will stay alive at all costs.

Animals ... not so lucky.

The vast majority of living non-human mammals are livestock. They have never had it worse than they do today.

Wild mammals are now a minority and they have certainly never had it worse. They are in the midst of the Sixth Extinction.

[malvosenior]

Hopefully we survive a lot longer than centuries! That's not very long. We should be pushing for space exportation of the human race if we're actually to survive at cosmic scales.

> It will get gorier and nastier, but we will stay alive at all costs.

By nearly every metric, humans are better off today than they ever have been in the past. Why do you think this trend will not only stop but reverse itself? Technology is a great boon to humanity and it keeps getting better.

I think the welfare of non-domesticated mammals is an entirely different conversation to this one. I will say that evolution is always going to happen and there have been numerous mass extinction events in the past. Whether through astrological, geological or biological means, there will be black swans that greatly impact life on earth. Human culture is certainly among those.