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Climate change is not going to lead to our extinction.

• com2kid 7y ago
  The resulting socio-economic upheaval might. Millions of people starving or mass migrating due to changes in food supplies are bound to cause a bit (lot) of conflict. A few degrees change in temperature can dramatically alter weather patterns, the places that used to be good for growing crops may no longer be so. Sure we can adapt and move farms, but the years until that infrastructure gets rebuilt may not be pretty. It only takes 1 person with a red button to end it all.
• toss1 7y ago
  I would not be so sure about that. There are a variety of scenarios where climate change breaks the food web, e..g., ocean acidification (which is happening much faster & in greater amounts than anticipated). While not extincting all life, & some humans plausibly survive, it is normal for populations to collapse to 10% of previous under conditions losing only down to 80% of previous feed stock -- when down to <10% of feed stock, how many survive?
• baron_harkonnen 7y ago
  The key to surviving climate change is having the energy resources to do so. Resource depletion is happening at roughly the same speed as climate change is impacting us. We do not live in a sustainable way. Nobody would seriously argue with that claim, but the implication is that our way of life is unsustainable. Extinction is a bit extreme but the way we live, our global civilization, is not one that can be sustained. We're showing absolutely zero signs of seriously slowing the pace of our resource consumption or waste production. Only time will tell what it looks like when we go from unsustainable to the consequences of that. But given that without hydrocarbons our biosphere can probably only support about 1 billion humans... we're in for a rough time.