GP problem is not the continuity of life on the planet, just the continuity of human life on the planet.
Sure it is unlikely that humanity will be wiped out by anything else than ourself. Still life could become a lot harsher.
Of course, even a few billions less people is not big deal. They were going to die anyway and it solves overpopulation in one shot. From a high level perspective, with enough time spent after the events almost everything is no so bad after all. Look how good was WW2 for the US.
Still at some point you have to take a step back. We pretend we are above animals. Consuming all your resources without planning, survival of the fittest, don't care and see what happens is what animals do. We can design wonderful piece of technology, think in abstract math, understand the intricacies of the universe, but somehow our legacy for the next few hundred years will a destroyed environment and much later be labelled in history book as a clever monkey.
> Consuming all your resources without planning, survival of the fittest, don't care and see what happens is what animals do.
Animals don't consume more than they need. We as humans, no matter how much we have, always crave for more, a hunger that will never be satisfied. No, we are not animals. We are worse.
Sure it is unlikely that humanity will be wiped out by anything else than ourself. Still life could become a lot harsher.
Of course, even a few billions less people is not big deal. They were going to die anyway and it solves overpopulation in one shot. From a high level perspective, with enough time spent after the events almost everything is no so bad after all. Look how good was WW2 for the US.
Still at some point you have to take a step back. We pretend we are above animals. Consuming all your resources without planning, survival of the fittest, don't care and see what happens is what animals do. We can design wonderful piece of technology, think in abstract math, understand the intricacies of the universe, but somehow our legacy for the next few hundred years will a destroyed environment and much later be labelled in history book as a clever monkey.