User blog comment:Holly Bailey/Why I Don't Want Children/@comment-31584402-20170406133353/@comment-25947144-20170406161922

I said that the whole world has a high birth rate, then you gave me the example of the Americas, as if it means anything. Then, do you think there's a chance humans won't survive? Dude, high intelligence made us one of the most adaptive animals. If anything kills us, it will be either by our own hand, or something on a planetary level, which is out of our control at the moment. And if you think that those things are the only things humans are concerned with, then I'd rather have those die off as they aren't any level over other animals.

Significant natural evolution takes thousands of generations. It's pointless to try to predict it. As said, humans are extremely intelligent, that's our evolution. We are a few steps away from bio-mechanical augmentation and human genetic engineering, these are infinitely likelier and sooner to occur, not to mention much more advantageous.