This isn’t the comfort you think it is. If the bombs light up my horizon, I won’t be thinking “well, at least some remote tribe might continue a stone age humanity” while my entire family is consumed in a nuclear fire.
The Roman Empire one is a harder one, since it was a centuries-long process with plenty of plagues, wars and migrations. It’s not hard to find sources, however, that the city of Rome fell from 1 million to 30.000 ~ 60.000 people.
That’s kind of what triggered my question, there’s a common misunderstanding that the fall of Rome was something brutal and with few causes (that are selected by politicians when they want to scare people). I think Rome losing its population can be explained by emigration rather than people dying.
You know that between 50% and 90% of the population died in all three of the examples you listed, right?
You know there is a theory that a volcanic eruption reduced the human population down to 1-3,000 individuals?
Yet here we are.
This isn’t the comfort you think it is. If the bombs light up my horizon, I won’t be thinking “well, at least some remote tribe might continue a stone age humanity” while my entire family is consumed in a nuclear fire.
Okay? I’m not offering comfort. It is simply true. We all die one day and worrying about the end of our society isn’t new.
My point is there will be cataclysm. That’s it.
Y’all are so argumentative and sensitive
I’d probably be thinking “Well, fuck. That’s disappointing.”
just shrug at the mushroom cloud and go back to seeing how many upvotes my final meme got
Believe it or not, my criteria for prosperity is more than “literally somebody survives to propogate my species.”
Any source on that apart from the plague?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocoliztli_epidemics
The Roman Empire one is a harder one, since it was a centuries-long process with plenty of plagues, wars and migrations. It’s not hard to find sources, however, that the city of Rome fell from 1 million to 30.000 ~ 60.000 people.
That’s kind of what triggered my question, there’s a common misunderstanding that the fall of Rome was something brutal and with few causes (that are selected by politicians when they want to scare people). I think Rome losing its population can be explained by emigration rather than people dying.