When the Mayans predicted the world would end everybody freaked out but when scientists do we don't care

Guess who's building your robot bees if every exploitable worker has starved, died of thirst, died in a flood, or died cause of a heat stroke?

Not counting that they're still people for fucks sake, how can you just brush off the unnecessary death of 4-5 BILLION people just because they're "unproductive"? Unproductive people still have hopes and dreams, they feel love and affection, they have friends and families and can potentially live happy lives even if they don't have the same comforts that we're used to. The same goes for animals too, mammals especially since we know that they're capable of complex emotions and they're closely related to us.

And this still doesn't have anything to do with a mass extinction which is an event where

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