I like the spirit of this thread, but I think in general you guys are being over-dramatic. There's a lot of ego-centrism in play here; humans since the beginning of civilization have thought that their generation would be the one to witness armageddon and destruction. The Earth can sustain a human population of 20 billion or more without too much trouble. That's still so far away. Some of the major problems that humanity thinks they're facing, global warming in particular, are basically just the new religion of "educated" elite upper-middle class whites. We're not even sure if humanity has made the slightest contribution to this issue; it could very well just be a part of the natural cycle of Earth's heating and cooling. Climates change, species go extinct. This is a natural part of Earth's evolution.
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