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[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2021-07-18 at 14:35 +1000, Roger Clarke wrote:
> > Otherwise, as Tom Lehrer sang in another contest, we'll {all} go
> > together when we go...
> Or just the cockroaches, the salamanders, horseshoe crabs, hydras,
> and the bacteria in the flumes of underwater volcanoes.

I have a different opinion on that. I think humans are essentially
invulnerable now, to all except sudden planet-killer catastrophes. 

Global warming is not such a thing, because it happens too slowly, and
while it will cause biological upheaval, it really won't do the planet
much harm.

We are intelligent, tool-using cockroaches (or maybe rats). There is
(almost) no earthly environment we cannot survive - either indefinitely
or long enough to escape it - given air to breath and water to drink.
We are quite difficult to kill randomly and astonishingly difficult to kill en masse.

https://imgur.com/gallery/309O7tJ

It may not be humanity as we know it. Lives may well be "nasty, brutish
and short", but humans will survive whatever comes. And of course over
enough time, evolution will do its thing too. Maybe we'll do better
next time.

Regards, K.

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