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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's funny to think that modern humans have been around for tens of thousands of years but we're only ~80 years of infertility away from global extinction.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

80 years of total infertility across billions of people. Even 99.9% infertility would still leave millions of people. Extinction isn't coming anytime soon.