It's a problem that headlines commonly use "our planet" or "life on earth", with what is actually destabilized is merely "human civilization, in its current for

It's a problem that headlines commonly use "our planet" or "life on earth", with what is actually destabilized is merely "human civilization, in its current form, size, and characteristics; along side an ecosystem well into an anthropocene extinction" The planet will be just fine. Life on earth will be just fine. The worst we could possibly manage is beating it down by eliminating a few kingdoms; and that's vanishingly unlikely. What is at risk is every level of the stack of "civilization" and its processes; and perhaps perpetuation of our species, though again, it would be very, very, hard to wipe us out, even intentionally. A particularly bad pandemic or set of pandemics, riding on top of prior systemic collapse and massive climate change, might do it. But almost certainly not. There are a lot of people, in a lot of places, and modulo catastrophic climate destabilization married to pragmatic total blockers on migration, life uh finds a way. Human life would be brutish and short to be sure. For a while. None of this is reason to not fight to the last to prevent collapse scenarios. I'm just tired of breezy self-important shorthands when lack of precision and hand-waving contributed to our current crises.