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[โ€“] LouNeko@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's funny to think that modern humans have been around for tens of thousands of years but we're only ~80 years of infertility away from global extinction.

80 years of total infertility across billions of people. Even 99.9% infertility would still leave millions of people. Extinction isn't coming anytime soon.