>You cannot in any way classify human beings as a whole as hunter-gatherers. But again, what relevance does that have to that user's point that we're not adapted to only specific environments?
If the global human population managed to have itself reduced down to about 2,500 hunter-gatherer individuals by the Toba catastrophe roughly around 70,000 years ago, I think it is more than likely that at the very least 2,500 hunter-gatherers can manage to survive in some isolated environment somewhere in South America, Central Africa, or New Guinea. Potentially even live through an asteroid impact event on the scale that occurred 60,000,000 years ago.
Juan Johnson
But if jesus died for our sins 2,000 years ago, how is the earth 400,000,000 years old. I don't think God's time game is that off
Isaiah Torres
Okay? But it's far, far more likely that technologically advanced humans would just dig a hole in the side of a mountain and chill out in there.
Adam Howard
>Okay? But it's far, far more likely that technologically advanced humans would just dig a hole in the side of a mountain and chill out in there.
Yes that's also very likely.
Point of the matter is that humans are highly adaptable and could potentially survive through just about anything thrown at them.
Not just easily die out due to global warming, global thermonuclear war, impact event, supervolcanic eruption, etc. as some have suggested in this thread.
Ethan Taylor
>global warming No biodiversty loss. We don't exist independent of our ecological systems mong
Hunter Lopez
>total life Nah just the massive reduction of complex life we are in the middle of. The same magnitude of the Jurassic-Triassic extinction the Dinos disappeared in Its a break down of boundary conditions we are fucked, all the work is turning into entropy
John Lee
>We don't exist independent of our ecological systems mong We as a whole? No. A small (relative) group with genetic manipulation technology? They can do whatever they want. This isn't a conversation about whether or not the large population of humans currently here will be sustained, it's a question of whether or not the human species will persevere, and they very easily can.
>Humans can't survive a mass extinction event Hippies pls leave
Liam Young
I highly doubt it Sure, for a few generations, but there is no chance past that without large reserves of biodiversty and an incredible advancement in eco/earthsystem science and engineering after most of the population goes the survivors will slowly wither away and disappear after a couple hundered or so years. Keep in mind it usually takes complex life about 15-20 million years to take off again after disturbances of this scale
