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Defasher wrote

Start here:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/mar/14/nasa-civilisation-irreversible-collapse-study-scientists

Humanity is an arrogant and self destructive species, the chance that we survive after we've caused the apocalypse is very unlikely.

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lustysociety wrote

Thanks for the reply and the link.

The research team does not sound so pessimistic though, quote:
"However, the scientists point out that the worst-case scenarios are by no means inevitable, and suggest that appropriate policy and structural changes could avoid collapse, if not pave the way toward a more stable civilisation."

While I think that humanity is awesome and becoming better all the time, you see humans as a self destructive species.
IMO, the fall of the Roman Empire was rather a transformative event (if you can call it an event because it took decades) and less a "destructive" event like e.g. the Black Death.

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