[blacksmith_tb]

Hmm, I think cynicism is a reasonable response to how we got in this mess, but some of these scenarios seem fairly unconnected to climate change, like "a huge portion of all species die." Human beings have certainly brought about plenty of extinction, but mainly though destruction of habitats, overfishing, etc. Climate change is just a one of many pressures on animal and plant species we have brought to bear.

I think it might be possible to take an absurdist attitude, we're pumping out solar panels and wind turbines at a furious clip, it's possible that capitalism will incidentally save us, just like it's incidentally almost killed us up to now.