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by makeitdouble 496 days ago
Thanks.

My word choice and vocabulary was pretty poor, I also don't think humanity will die.

But more than the gradual climate degradation, I fear we'll have an increasing number unforseen failure modes that will make it pretty hellish to survive (e.g. whole swaths of land/water accidentally poisoned, non human viruses we can't properly deal with, environment adapts in ways that is a lot more unfavorable to us than we assume). As you point out, I'd bet on uncharted system dynamics leading to cascading failures.

If life continues while slowly getting worse I'd see it as a win, the worse scenario being a lot bleaker with people barely maintaining a viable number of human to keep society going.

It's not fate and I'm part of the generation that truely didn't give a damn about climate for most of it's life...which is perhaps why I feel I'm not in a position to just assume everything will be shitty but somewhat fine and the next generation will just be slightly worse.