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It seems that way and of course it likely won’t get that extreme but the scenarios aren’t symmetric.

Extinction is a real phenomenon. There have been many extinctions is your life time. It is directly a physical possibility both from a logical standpoint and an evidence based standpoint point. Like this isn’t just math it’s reality.

People stacked 10 deep is not a physically possible scenario. There aren’t enough resources on earth to sustain that level of population.



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