• LengAwaits@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Alright. I’m sorry to have annoyed you. I was just hoping for a discussion.

    We have a difference of opinion and that’s alright. My concerns surrounding the Holocene extinction event triggering total ecosystem collapse need not be yours.

    I’m a human behind a screen, just like you. It’s free to be kind to people, even when you disagree with them.

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      8 days ago

      You haven’t annoyed me. I’m sorry if my manner offends you.

      No one in this thread has been able to demonstrate that human extinction is likely.

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        8 days ago

        That’s totally fair, and to clarify my own stance: I don’t think it’s likely, or even possible that the human population will drop to 0 in my lifetime, let alone in the next few hundred years.

        I’m primarily concerned about a compounding of factors that lead toward an increasingly higher probability of that outcome. I’m thus unwilling to take a “we don’t have to worry about human extinction because it’s statistically unlikely” stance. I’m also not attempting to assert that that’s your stance, either. I don’t know enough about what you believe to make any assertions about that at this point.

        I really appreciate your reply, and I’m not trying to be snarky, here. I came to Lemmy, initially, looking for higher levels of discourse than are available on Reddit, and I get a little high-and-mighty about that. So I also apologize if I’m coming off as an ass.