Just fantastic. Very fun knowledge to have
This attitude will certainly bring us there. If there is no hope for humanity, there is no revolution, and then there will surely be no possibility for it.
EDIT: Yes, I know its dire, and I know climate change is already past the point of no return. But humanity even in the hot earth scenario will likely still have areas safe for human life. We need hope if there is any hope to have any say in the changed world we'll face.
And I can certainly find agreement in that take, but doom and nihilism alone will achieve nothing but suffering.
That kind of thinking is tempting but it's the easy way out. Even in some of the worst outcomes, there will still be people and their lives will be easier or harder depending on our actions in the present.
I disagree. All these dreams these billionaires have about Martian colonies or stuff like that... it's all way more difficult to implement than most people realize. The silver lining on all this is climate change is coming at us so fast I don't think even the richest humans are going to be able to escape it.
Perhaps "the end of civilization as we know it" means the end of capitalism. Remember, for many people the end of the world is easier to imagine than the end of capitalism.
Silver lining: is we'll all be dead by then and won't have to see it
Not-so-silver lining: we'll be in hell
I mean ok? Life is just a set of self perpetuating chemical reactions. Taking energy from these reactions isn't morally worse than absorbing energy from photons.
And the idea of a mad max scenario with pockets of civilization on a hostile planet is just as bad, if not worse, than full extinction.
It owns to think other primates will probably be fine and humanity will have been only a bleep in the history of life on earth, let us hope our end is swift
