• Dalvoron@lemm.ee
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    12 days ago

    About 90-95% of humans have died at some point in their lives so yeah very likely we will follow suit at some point.

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        11 days ago

        You underestimate the effects of population growth. There was a lot of time in prehistory but the population at any given point was tiny compared to today.

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          11 days ago

          i remember an old article that said DNA shows that all current humans can be traced back to 7 women during the ice age.

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          11 days ago

          Those people were alive and died it doesn’t matter… There have been more people dead than are currently living by a lot.

          We don’t care how many people were alive back than compared to today. It’s the total amount to how many have died…

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            11 days ago

            We don’t care how many people were alive back than compared to today.

            But that is exactly the ratio you claim to be 99.9% when in reality it is closer to 93%.

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        10 days ago

        Hang on there based on the image, 7.95 billion alive today, 109 billion have lived and died, that’s like 93% death rate not 99.9%. Is there some other figure on the page you’re basing the 99.9% off?