Oh come on.

Meanwhile I'm daydreaming about a "Black Death 3.0" which selectively kills of bad genes in the populace; not only would the amount of humans decline, but the chances of conceiving children with a predisposition for developing serious / deadly diseases / handicaps would also shrink greatly.

What's "ZPT"?

It's absolutely human-caused, and I don't see us change anything to combat it - at least not in the dimensions needed.

Humans are egoistic by nature, thus I only see AI or fusion as a last-ditch effort to barely keeps things right; that, or we'll have to adapt to new living circumstances.

Only if you guys bring some hot sauce.

You do know that "back then" the world looked a whole lot different, right?

Human populations were sparsely spread across continents, and still partly nomadic.

People back then were not only tougher, but could also handle changes in landscape better; Who cared if the coastline was 5 km further inland or not? A few degrees warmer or colder?

In today's day-and-age, it's all a lot more complicated and damage caused by rising water levels, droughts or too wet seasons is felt much more then back then, hence why it's a big deal.

It's the amount of humans, not what we do per se, I'd say, which causes problems; but of course it's only good and wishful to try and cram even more people onto planet earth. (/S)

Reading as in: My brain auto-filled the last part of the sentence.

And here I am reading Warnet: Deploy and simulate large-scale conflicts... Gotta stop watching so much news.

Guess what: My purchasing power has greatly increase since then, and I still don't really know what to do.

This one's the winner.

Wtf m8, wtf man.

Meh.

Huh?

That's a savage move, damn 😆

The last point(s) are probably the easiest and most important ones to fix.

Also: Social Media is also one of the culprits I think.

I think that a "true" Artificial Intelligence won't bother about whether or not we simpletons share our rights with it or not; It'll be way ahead of us in pretty much everything anyway, why would it bother about archaic legal frameworks?

Yep... Once robotically enhanced limbs become a thing, I'll be the first one to sign up and become the jar-opener I always should've been...

Me included, it's pretty awkward seeing me trying to open a stiff jar most of the time.

You really like to point that one out, huh?

I often find myself not really understanding what you try to tell me; You're simply too eloquent for me.

Yet SN is build around it, huh?

It'll surely play it's part along with other points such as the decline of the average male's test-levels, but I think the biggest reason for the decline in relationships / higher divorce rates is that modern women simply don't need a man like they did before our beloved boomers were a thing.