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Hostile to human life seems a bit hyperbolic. Our technology and society will collapse and stop the co2 addition well before then. Its possible we will have hit
by galangalalgol 4y ago
Hostile to human life seems a bit hyperbolic. Our technology and society will collapse and stop the co2 addition well before then. Its possible we will have hit run-away by then, but I don't think that is currently predicted? A malthusian collapse followed by a second shot with sustainable tech built on the back of unsustainable ones might well have a chance.
- RosanaAnaDana 4y agoDo large scale catastrophic floods, heat waves, snow storms, hurricanes, and wild fires not qualify as hostile to human life? What is the true scotsman weather and climate that is hostile to human life?
- edgyquant 4y agoIf they do then the Earth already qualifies as hostile to human life
- klyrs 4y agoThe problem is that the level of hostility is increasing. A caged tiger is hostile but with some sensible precautions, one can avoid harm. If the cage is opened, that hostility is an immediate concern.
- jpollock 4y agoHostile to human life means "humans cannot exist without technological assistance". It doesn't mean mass death, that's a measure of the Carrying Capacity. Hostility means carrying capacity is zero, or close to it.
- pvaldes 4y agoWho will maintain the nuclear plants so they don't go out of control if the society collapse?
- galangalalgol 4y agoNo one, but I expect they'd get shut down properly as necessary materials became unavailable. But even if they all went into melt down, that wouldn't make the planet completely unlivable. I was merely stating plenty of breeding populations would exist. Hostile to human life reads to me like extinction, and that seems horribly unlikely. Really bad for sure, and we really should start being smarter now to avoid that (we won't, but we should).