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Humanity has survived several mass extinction events. Short of something on the far end of cataclysmic (i.e. “no complex life survives”) humanity will endure. We’re highly adaptable and can eat anything.
That doesn’t mean that most of us will survive, or those that do are going to be having a good time.
Youngest Toba Eruption – 74 thousand years ago. Almost all of humanity died, with an estimated surviving population of 3 to 10 thousand. We hadn’t even invented agriculture at that point.
Humanity has survived several mass extinction events. Short of something on the far end of cataclysmic (i.e. “no complex life survives”) humanity will endure. We’re highly adaptable and can eat anything.
That doesn’t mean that most of us will survive, or those that do are going to be having a good time.
Our ancestors survived the last extinction event, you may mean.
Only because they were tiny rodent creatures. We don’t have that luxury.
I meant H. Sapiens.
The last mass extinction was 65 million years ago and humans are like 0.2 million years old
Late Pleistocene extinctions – 13-50 thousand years ago.
Youngest Toba Eruption – 74 thousand years ago. Almost all of humanity died, with an estimated surviving population of 3 to 10 thousand. We hadn’t even invented agriculture at that point.