Conquer Club

This is something that has always drawed my curiosity. I've always been curious on how long earth can sustain human life/growth, earliest estimates is 50 years.

I offer a... rather very out of reach goal to ensure humanity's survival. 1 million placed on what i would call Noahs ark for irony, but flung to nearest habitable planet, w/ live stock, farms, etc.
I'll be the crazy man here, but i am on that spectrum that life isn't going too much longer unless we A. Change consumer rates,gas, oi, water etc. Good luck changing that. Or B. We continue procreating that life is just not feasible. But i can't see the latter anyways because the Earth is being bled dry as is.

So let's put aside politics, how do we survive ss a species?

If we could get the population down to a reasonable level, a lot of our global warming, pollution, and extinction level problems would end. Luckily, it seems that is a self-correcting issue. The main driver of population growth seems to be poverty. As people get wealthier, they naturally spend less time procreating. Basically, when you're a subsistence-level serf, there isn't much to do on a Saturday night except get drunk and f*ck, and the population grows fast. Once you have money to go do fun things with your life, you realize the fun things are a lot funner without rugrats in tow, and you become naturally resistant to the idea of breeding. We have done a good job in the last couple decades of increasing wealth and reducing the birth rate, and if current trends continue, there will be a day when the human population goes down to something reasonable like 200 million worldwide instead of 8 billion.

That would cure most of the self-inflicted problems like pollution and global warming.

Of course that leaves open the possibility that some nutjob will blow up the world with nukes or designer viruses, just for fun. We can't completely eliminate that possibility, but we can do work-arounds with survival bunkers either below ground or in orbit.

That leaves the possibilities of various external extinction-level events -- an asteroid crashing into earth, a gamma-ray burst from a supernova somewhere close, and of course the unavoidable fact that the sun will eventually die. I think those, also, can all be solved, assuming a few more centuries of improvement in our space colonization efforts. We will eventually get into interstellar space, and hopefully be able to find new lands faster than old ones die.

Birthrates in most of the developed nations of the world are falling.

Global fertility rates have been falling for decades and are reaching historically low levels. While the human population now exceeds 8 billion and may top 10 billion by 2050, the momentum of growth is dissipating because of declines in its most powerful driver—fertility. Over the next 25 years, East Asia, Europe, and Russia will experience significant population declines.

What this will mean for the future of humanity is rather ambiguous.

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Population decline may also reduce pressures on the environment associated with climate change, depletion of natural resources, and environmental degradation.

MORE to read here (as as source for above):

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2025/06/the-debate-over-falling-fertility-david-bloom#:~:text=Global%20fertility%20rates%20have%20been,will%20experience%20significant%20population%20declines.