the vast majority of humans didn't survive even before anthropogenic climate change
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I don't like this shower thought. It puts bad vibes out into the world and I'm not about that right now. Im having a good day for once, lol.
I'm sorry. I promise I'm a big picture optimist, if that helps! 😜
Yup. That is my consensus. But the thing is: at what cost. At the cost of losing so much life and beauty
We killed millions of species to make the rich richer, but some humans survived so that's nice
depends if you leaving on a seabord, which most people are. maybe tibetians in the tibetian plataeu. we also wont survive the opposite, an ICE AGE, which only some other hominid species can withstand the temps.
It depends where the hot is coming from. If it's from inner earth we won't survive because people can't survive outside of this planet.
We already heated the world 1.5 degrees in less than 100 years. If we break 3 then that's probably the end of most macroscopic life on earth.
Nah.
We think we're that powerful, but there's an entire domain of creatures we can barely reach that utilize geothermal energy that will just keep plugging away out of our sphere of influence.
Surface and shallow water life is and will suffer greatly until we burn ourselves out and are no longer a threat on the scale we currently are, but humans are even egotistical in this topic. We couldn't come close to sterilizing this world, even if it magically became as important to us as fucking one another over for paper simulacra of supposed value.
We are a nuisance, but we aren't the first evolutionary nuisance the earth has dealt with. We have no mastery over this world as much as many like to believe so. A nuclear detonation possesses a tiny fraction of the power of a volcanic eruption.
Lol, OK.
What do you disagree with, though?
Humans will perish, as will 90% of life on Earth.
Civilization likely will perish, but i doubt the species will short of a dramatic event.
We are degrading the environment slow enough to adjust.
No, it's going faster than anything humans have ever experienced. It will take about a million years for life to adapt and evolve.
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No we aren't, we are in the middle of the 6th mass extinction. Its hubris to think humans wont go the way of Neanderthals. Hell, we are actively trying to ignore it and make it worse right now in the U.S.
I'd love to see us go the way of Neanderthals!
But I don't think that will happen. I think we'll go extinct instead.
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