
Trying to prove that humans are at least some good. With no humans at all there would be no concept of good, which makes that particular case awkward.
There were major volcanic events at the end of the Triassic and at the end of the Cretaceous period, there's no particular reason why such a thing couldn't happen again if, say, Yellowstone erupts. If there were a million of us we might be able to cooperate to come up with some kind of shelter from a hostile atmosphere; if there were hundreds of billions we might be able to actually fix it; if there were only 42 of us, we'd be fucked.
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There were major volcanic events at the end of the Triassic and at the end of the Cretaceous period, there's no particular reason why such a thing couldn't happen again if, say, Yellowstone erupts. If there were a million of us we might be able to cooperate to come up with some kind of shelter from a hostile atmosphere; if there were hundreds of billions we might be able to actually fix it; if there were only 42 of us, we'd be fucked.
