Spare a Thought for the Billions of People Who Will Never Exist

[Silent3]

56. I've watched that series, and it's pretty good...

...but only one episode touched upon, and only lightly, problems with untended human technology, like mentioning a chlorine gas tanker eventually corroding and unleashing a toxic cloud.

There's tons of shit like that that would happen, and much worse, that they didn't cover, like untended nuclear reactors, or undersea drilling sites bursting open. Imagine something like the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe happening over and over again, with no one around to stop the flow of oil.

On the time scale of millions of years, of course the planet can recovery from all of that. But in the closer term of a few centuries to a few millennia, the planet would be much, much better off with a slow reduction in human population than a sudden disappearance.