[t0mbstone]

We aren't eating the planet to death. The planet has survived asteroids and all sorts of things, including the mass extinction of the dinosaurs and most of the life on earth.

The only thing we might be doing is ruining humanity's own long-term chances of survival. There's a distinct possibility that humans will undergo a mass extinction. That doesn't mean the planet is dead, though.

There is bacteria that can survive in extreme temperatures (for example, in extremely hot underwater volcanic plumes).

Worst case scenario, humans go extinct and some other life-form ends up evolving. You could be looking at some kind of sentient jellyfish taking over the planet in a billion years or whatever.

[antisthenes]

Whenever these articles write 'planet', it's obvious that the connotation is Biosphere, aka living creatures.

Sometimes it also means civilization, which encompasses a broad spectrum of things, but mostly a standard of living above subsistence farming/hunting/gathering, and being able to organize in groups larger than small tribes.

> Worst case scenario, humans go extinct

Sure, might take a while. I think the bigger immediate problem is that to survive in a global warming environment, traits will be selected for that aren't necessarily conducive to preservation of civilization (which is our main achievement as a species)