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Humans as a species, I'm not too worried about -- we're resilient. But the elaborate social superstructures we've been building over the years -- modern civilization and modern technology -- that is far more fragile than we care to admit.
It's a house of cards -- a million interdependent pieces, many relying on trust or belief, and many requiring expert knowledge that only lives in the brains of a few thousands of people. If history is any guide, it may not last forever.
When we picture the apocalypse in pop culture, we imagine a devastating event happening overnight -- maybe nuclear war. But it will not take a very large stressor to bring down modern societies, and it will not happen in a day. Climate change may do the trick, over a century or 2
It does not take a dropkick to bring down a house of cards, a little breeze suffices
maybe it’s time to restart civilization
Is it not different from nature? In nature there are many trust relationship. There are plant species that depend on pollination from only few species. Humans seriously disrupt that balance. Nature obviously will survive, but diversity will suffer.
The worry would be just like in nature, not total anihilation, but decrease in diversity of ideas\fields. I can imagine that in case of population decrease only the most promising and important fields of study will survive, while rest will perish.
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