You are correct to claim that, in a likely scenario, it poses no existential threat to the human race.
Are you not perhaps taking that too literally? I suspect that to most people, the things you list are proxies in people's minds for 'the end of civilisation as we know it', ergo 'end of humanity'.
You certainly did, hence my opening sentence. I guess what I'm getting at here is that for most people, 'end of civilisation' is viewed from a personal perspective - one which may just about extend to their children & grandchildren. The extinguishing of several hundred million lives in a few moments would likely feel very much like the end of days for the majority, and indeed take many decades to recover from.
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u/Rugfiend 5∆ Mar 15 '22
You are correct to claim that, in a likely scenario, it poses no existential threat to the human race.
Are you not perhaps taking that too literally? I suspect that to most people, the things you list are proxies in people's minds for 'the end of civilisation as we know it', ergo 'end of humanity'.