• ripcord@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    There are virtually no scientists that think all life on earth will go extinct.

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      2 months ago

      That ALL life will go extinct is hard to imagine, but many scientists do see a high chance that humanity is going extinct (due to climate collapse) or, at the very least a population collapse of >95% is certain to happen within 200 years.

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                2 months ago

                The last glacial maximum was about 25000 years ago and was 6-8 degrees C colder than today, globally. There was massive change in global climate, populations, etc. And we survived. And that was before we had established technology beyond stone tools, had relatively very limited starting population and organization, etc etc.

                For all of our faults we are very good at adapting and surviving. More that nearly any other species.

                We’ll survive whatever is coming as a species. Even nuclear holocaust is unlikely to totally wipe us out.

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                  2 months ago

                  Mmm. I would guess that the difference between 5 degrees colder than now and 5 degrees hotter than now is quite different for human physiology. There will certainly be places some of us can still live, but lots of equatorial places will become uninhabitable