[narrator]

What if this is "The Great Filter?" [Ominous music plays in the background]

[natebc]

We've got a few candidates for that on the go and this is for sure one of them.

[aaaronic]

It's not like they're mutually exclusive. In fact, multiple candidates seem to be quite sympathetic in their feedback loops.

[RetroTechie]

That would be when we've automated stuff to the point where [machinery breaking down] causes a large majority of humans to die from starvation.

And then go on to repeat that mistake by re-building without using the lessons from previous catastrophe(s).

Sadly that last part sounds fairly common for humans... 8-|

So yeah. Maybe. Possible.

[narrator]

We're already there since without the Haber–Bosch process billions would starve.