Alright, so we pump energy into a chaotic system and obviously the extremes will get more exteme. Stronger hurricanse, colder hurricanse and snap freezes, deeper floods, wet bulb events further north than you think possible, whatever. This is the known unknown.

I am existentially afraid of the unknown unknowns. At what point do the phytoplankton I'm currently breathing the poop of have a mass extinction event? All of human civilization is about to drown on dry land and I spend 5 days a week maintaining software that charges people for turning on their lights.

I crave death I crave oblivion death to america death to capitalism death to me.

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[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 1 points 2 years ago

Life evolved originally in extremely harsh conditions. Multicellular life once endured temperatures both much hotter and much colder than the present day.

I can't predict anything conclusive from this but I do have a reason to believe in the flexibility and resilience of living things, even if we are at the beginning of possibly the biggest-ever extinction event.