[webdood90]

I've shifted my mindset to abandon this idea that humanity will survive forever, or that we should strive to live as long as we can.

Intelligence is a scarcity and it cannot overcome the majority of people that are incredibly stupid or ignorant. So accepting that we are doomed relieves some of the stress. I won't have children to worry about their future, either.

I still live my life in such a way that minimizes my impact on the world as much as possible. I still surround myself with folks that want a better world. But there is no stopping the impending doom and I'm trying not to be miserable with the time I have.

[izzydata]

Ultimately I think it will be a self correcting problem, but there is going to be an extremely long period of absolute hell. Global warming is eventually going to cause food and water scarcity on a level that will wipe out a huge percentage of the Earths population. Then the Earth will recover from there being fewer humans.

If in 3000 years we discover humans were completely wiped out to the last person I would be pretty surprised.

[wat10000]

I agree that human extinction is very unlikely on anything like historical timespans. Maybe in a few million years, like any other species.

I do think there's a decent chance of civilizational collapse in the near to medium term. It seems like everything is getting very fragile. So much economic activity revolves around extremely sophisticated machines with many critical components that are manufactured in just a few locations, sometimes a single location. A major war could shatter that, or climate change could push us over a tipping point where those capabilities can no longer be maintained, or it might just be a cascading random breakdown due to the modern economy being so complicated.

If it happens, then I'm very pessimistic about the ability to ever come back from it. With all the easily accessible fossil fuels gone, getting industry going again is going to be a really tall order. So humanity might survive a long time, but it may consist of life the way it was in prehistory.

[rolph]

Toba catastrophe theory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngest_Toba_eruption#Toba_ca...

[SoftTalker]

Agree, this is how excesses always get corrected in nature.

[alt227]

Excellent attitude. This needs to be adopted by more people IMO.

Why are people trying to keep the earth the same as what they think it should be forever? We are a blot on the history of the earth, The human race will perish when considtions on the planet no longer suit us, just like many other large species before us. The planet will warm and cool over millions of years long after we are gone, and nature will continue to evolve many more wierd and wonderful things.

Humans need to hurry up and accept that they really dont matter at all to the planet.

[dyauspitr]

Humans won’t get wiped out, not by global warming atleast. It’s just going to suck and a lot of us will die.

[danny_codes]

Eh, I’m not convinced it won’t be an extinction event. We need a pretty narrow band of CO2 and Oxygen to live. Unclear if a lot of plant life dies off if it takes us with it

[hiccuphippo]

I mean, all of humanity has lived in the period between two glacial eras, I don't expect us to go beyond that. This should be clear even to people who choose to ignore the facts about climate change.

[maxerickson]

We are currently in an ice age.

[hiccuphippo]

Thanks. I confused period and era. What I meant is we are in the interglacial period between two glacial periods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial

[gzread]

What would happen if we weren't?

Oh yeah, we'd all die.

Maybe we shouldn't cause that to happen.

[alt227]

Humans need to hurry up and die, and let the planet and nature take its course.