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I agree, humans are probably the single hardest among multicellular life to entirely wipe out. Not because we're hardier than cockroaches, or hibernate when it's cold.

There's just so many of us, and every last one of us would be hellbent on survival. At this point in our technology and understanding, I bet there could be survivors of extinction level events equaling the K-T extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.

People already have bomb shelters that can last them months; feeding people does not require sunlight, only dirt, water, lamps and electricity. Nuclear winter can't stop the flow of electricity, survivors of any event can jerry-rig surviving wind turbines, nuclear power, geothermal, or hydro to create life sustaining electricity.

Would the survivors be smart enough to accomplish such feats? Of course, assuming they could read. The internet may collapse but the abundance of printed material, even doomsday vaults containing encyclopedias can provide for entertainment and education in long post-apocalyptic nights.

These things exist: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/amazing-doomsday-bunkers-of...

When people fret and worry about the fate of the human race.

I'm not worried. People will adapt and figure it out like they always have. The only thing people need to worry about is their own survival in harsh times.




> survivors of any event can jerry-rig surviving wind turbines, nuclear power, geothermal, or hydro

Excepting nuclear, where do you think the energy for those things comes from?




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