>but there is no case to be made for it being an issue of survival. There is the acidification of the ocean due to the absorption of carbon dioxide, which is s

>but there is no case to be made for it being an issue of survival. There is the acidification of the ocean due to the absorption of carbon dioxide, which is slowly bleaching all the coral on Earth. Many developing countries' food security comes from using reefs like natural fisheries. The collapse of a national industry has many possible effects, however "massively improved quality of life" is not one of them. And ocean acidification isn't a long-term process. Right now carbon emissions are over 10 times what they were during the paleocene-eocene thermal maximum. You can expect to see these changes come to fruition within 70 years if we continue business as usual.