We'll have all murdered each other/finally submitted to a megavirus long before the climate causes a mass extinction event.
Not that I'm in anyway a climate change denier. It's just that we're very good at engineering our way around these kinds of things. Musk and Co. will be producing Tesla Habdomes® for the masses to watch our planet turn into a scorched dystopian hellscape in air conditioned comfort well in advance of the environment actually becoming incompatible with human life.
The fossil fuel wars, on the other hand, are likely to end up with most of us either dead or sent back to pre-industrial era long before we seriously have to consider living out our days in a bubble.
It's either going to be that, or some form of mega-aggressive DonkeyPox that finally does us in. Because as mental as Covid was, we tend to have very, very short memories and I suspect those of us that didn't have first hand experience of a close friend/relative succumbing to the virus will look upon any future pandemic with a "Well, we survived the last one!" attitude. Good fucking luck making everyone stay in their houses for a month or wear masks in public ever again.
(, Wed 8 Jun 2022, 22:40, Reply)