Oh, I strongly disagree.
I know that there's some claims that the post-bombardment human population outside of the actual inhabitants of the Macross were created through cloning... but I just don't see that as being directly supported in the canon anime AFAIK, or as feasible.
The Bodol fleet attacks in Feb/Mar 2010. But there appears to be a fairly widespread population by late 2011. It's more than could be accounted for from the local population, and I find it difficult to believe that Zentraedi cloning processes could be so readily adapted to humans, particularly with regards to education.
Additionally, I don't think that the Bodol fleet would've just attacked the entire Earth, but would instead have concentrated on cities, industrial areas, and (I'd imagine very well hardened) military facilities. This would tend to result in a lessened attack on rural inhabitants, particularly low-tech ones with population centers not easily visible from space.
If we do discount a massive human cloning project, and we consider the large populations of Earth, Eden, and the Macross 7 as seen in Macross Plus and Macross 7 some thirty years later (and remembering that there are a lot of colonization ships and colonies set up) then it seems likely that at least a hundred million people, perhaps more, survived the bombardment and disruption of civilization.
('Course if we really wanted to have fun, we'd have Macross v. Orguss
I know that there's some claims that the post-bombardment human population outside of the actual inhabitants of the Macross were created through cloning... but I just don't see that as being directly supported in the canon anime AFAIK, or as feasible.
The Bodol fleet attacks in Feb/Mar 2010. But there appears to be a fairly widespread population by late 2011. It's more than could be accounted for from the local population, and I find it difficult to believe that Zentraedi cloning processes could be so readily adapted to humans, particularly with regards to education.
Additionally, I don't think that the Bodol fleet would've just attacked the entire Earth, but would instead have concentrated on cities, industrial areas, and (I'd imagine very well hardened) military facilities. This would tend to result in a lessened attack on rural inhabitants, particularly low-tech ones with population centers not easily visible from space.
If we do discount a massive human cloning project, and we consider the large populations of Earth, Eden, and the Macross 7 as seen in Macross Plus and Macross 7 some thirty years later (and remembering that there are a lot of colonization ships and colonies set up) then it seems likely that at least a hundred million people, perhaps more, survived the bombardment and disruption of civilization.
('Course if we really wanted to have fun, we'd have Macross v. Orguss