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by Cosmin_C 1729 days ago
I think what the parent comment meant was that the pollution debt will be automatically paid when civilization collapses and industry basically stops functioning.

A good way of looking at the situation is that the Earth will be fine regardless - it's been through worse (the Premian-Triassic saw extinction of 57% of biological families, 83% of genera, 81% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species), it's humanity that will be in deep, deep trouble in the near future.