"[T]he human population is set not just for shrinkage but collapse—and soon. To paraphrase Lehrer, if we are going to write about human extinction, we’d better start writing now."
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Ref: Tom Lehrer, "So Long Mom (A Song for World War III)" (1965) ' side two
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