Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
Ok so the mouse thing was more about social commentary of modern day Western society than about human extinction from one of the scenarios we were talking about.
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We'll most likely drive ourselves into extinction long before the climate does.

"Calhoun himself saw the fate of the population of mice as a metaphor for the potential fate of humankind. He characterized the social breakdown as a 'spiritual death'."

Obviously this applies more to the west, currently.