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In my admittedly not-so-educated view, it seems unlikely.
Interesting. I feel it's almost certain to happen eventually. I suppose it's theoretically possible that we completely wipe ourselves out first, but I find that very unlikely. With all of our flaws, we still stubbornly cling to this whole existence thing. I think that ultimately will mean cooler heads will prevail.
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We may wipe ourselves off the planet accidentally.
I really don't think that's possible. I'm not even sure if we could do it purposefully at this point. The wealthiest nation in human history has been planning for this contingency for 75 years now.
But, accidentally? 7 billion and growing with technology and the sharing of ideas so proliferated at this point? Don't get me wrong, we have plenty of growing pains still ahead. Some of which will probably be pretty awful. We'll make it through all of them, though, wiser and fitter.
Humanity has some really big things in store for it. We really are just getting started.