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Depends what you mean by "we". Homo sapiens has enormous cultural flexibility (though clearly, as the worldwide ecosystem collapse shows, this doesn't scale). S
by crispinb 7y ago
Depends what you mean by "we". Homo sapiens has enormous cultural flexibility (though clearly, as the worldwide ecosystem collapse shows, this doesn't scale). So groups of humans will continue to live.
But our global civilisation will inevitably collapse. No-one can predict in detail what that will entail, but we can be sure it won't be pretty.
- omegaworks 7y agoPeople are already being displaced from their countries by climate. Economies that relied on the stability of their rainfall for their agriculture are declining. They're building camps for them at the border here in the US.
- crispinb 7y agoQuite. A trickle of refugees precipitated huge European political convulsions in 2015. That was minuscule compared to what's coming. War is likely to be the leitmotiv of the global collapse.
- anigbrowl 7y agoNot sure why you're being downvoted for stating an obvious fact. Climate change isn't the only factor in central American migration but it's definitely part of the equation.
- canidiarus 7y agoLike how toxic the remnants of civilization will be for the surviving tribes? The collapse of society won't be an orderly process...
- crispinb 7y agoThere's no serious prospect of the whole planet being too 'toxic' for human groups to exist here and there. Even the probable nuclear wars aren't going to leave everything uninhabitable. The sheer amount of suffering and destruction involved between here and there, human and more-than-human like, will be catastrophic. Everything present-day humans know and love will be gone. The existence of small groups surviving marginally in the crumbling remnants of our our once-magnificent ecosystems is no silver lining worth caring about.