Allow me to offer an optimistic view. There are solutions in progress - nuclear tech, carbon capture, etc - and we'll come up with technology we can't yet pred

Allow me to offer an optimistic view. There are solutions in progress - nuclear tech, carbon capture, etc - and we'll come up with technology we can't yet predict. We're getting better at making things more efficient. Countries have fewer kids and care more about the environment as they get richer, they tend to clean the rivers and air. Trends have been positive the past few decades as poverty has decreased substantially and continues to. Humans are good at solving slow moving disasters, even when they're of global scope. Remember the ozone hole scare, which was solved beyond expectation. The year 2000 problem, solved beyond expectation. It was long thought we were about to run out of oil and food, solved beyond expectation (indeed creating opposite problems). We tend to solve these. Climate change may well end up being one of these things that freaked us out for a while, but we figured it out. Then we'll move onto the next slow moving disaster and solve that too.