[ewmiller]

Thousands of years is a VERY optimistic estimate. In the meantime, that's quite a few human generations who will have to live in a relative wasteland (compared to peak biodiversity). And that's IF you're right and we can just industrialize ourselves out of this problem too. Consider me skeptical.

[ceilingcorner]

On a biological timeline, it’s almost completely irrelevant. Humans spent tens of thousands of years in small tribal groups. I think we’ll be fine.

Besides that, most people in cities already live in a biodiversity wasteland.

[cableshaft]

So you're basically just arguing that technically humans will not go extinct, as long as there's at least two of them out there.

Okay fine, that very well be the case, but I think most of us would prefer not to live or have children or grandchildren that live to suffer (and probably be one of the casualties of) a 99% or higher percent population decline, which would still be 76 million people at the current population count.

[ceilingcorner]

No, that isn’t what I wrote. Try again.