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by ThrowawayTestr 548 days ago
Environmental collapse due to climate change is way, way more likely than any of those.
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And a full environmental collapse is not even strictly necessary to end civilization. If the climate perturbation is large enough it will cause a mass migration and an economic disaster, either of which is enough to cause a war.

Can humanity peacefully deal with things like half of China becoming uninhabitable by humans? Dunno but if I had to pit humanity against this or the mirror bacteria I'd choose the latter.

And Nuclear incidents caused by climate/ai extremists are way more likely than those.

Environmental collapse is a convenient, very portable goalpost though.

Lol, no activist is going to cause a nuclear event. It's just easier to accept that than the fact that we're ruining the biosphere.