Frankly, the world as we know it is going away, soon.

[Kennah]

152. We won't disappear as a species. We are just too resilient.

With that said, 80 to 90 percent of humans dying because of heat, starvation, disease, water wars, and the like will be, in technical terms, seriously fucked up shit.

Humans will cause a great many other species to go extinct, but we will survive. 70 kya we survived Toba in the Middle Paleolithic with stone and bone tools. As a species, we will survive this.

With any luck, we will learn from this. I'm really hoping we domesticate large cats. I love dogs, but a 100 pound cat would be one bad assed pet. Now, if someone domesticates a honey badger, well shit, you're set because honey badger don't care.

My hope, at age 45, is that a collapse does not happen for at least another 13 years. My youngest would be 16, so he'd stand a better chance of making it. If we went another 24 years before civilization collapsed, he could perhaps have a Ph.D. and be $3 million dollars in debt for student loans. Can't think of a better time for a collapse. College educated and debt free.