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by naasking 1313 days ago
> Climate change is absolutely not an existential risk.

That's an assessment based on what we know, but there's a lot we don't. For instance, it's possible that climate change could lead to a large scale collapse of food chains that could pose an existential risk to humanity.

It's also plausible that climate change will lead to resource shortages that result in wars between nuclear powers, and the nuclear calamity that follows kills us all.