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Humans have already survived about a dozen of these cycles. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/hasnt-earth-warmed-and-cooled-naturally-throughout

• grugagag 2y ago
  Not at this scale and this population though
  • alexey-salmin 2y ago
    Bigger population if anything increases the chance of survival
    • grugagag 2y ago
      Im not worried we won’t survive as a species, but more worried about an imminent population collapse, it has the potential to be catastrophic for a large part of it. And very ugly for the survivors too. It has the potential to alter what it means to be human.
      • alexey-salmin 2y ago
        The Bronze Age Collapse (now largely attributed to natural climate change) didn't seem to alter what it means to be human. Iliad and Odyssey portrays normal human beings busy with love, politics and war. Greeks lost almost everything including their writing system, had to pass these poems orally for centuries until a completely different alphabet was invented, and yet nothing changed much in the end. Same for surviving Egyptian texts or the famous "wrong grade of copper" cuneiform tablet. Given how similar were societies across the globe even before globalization have started, I doubt you'll get something different even from humans on an isolated island if the island can support a big enough population to develop culture.
• seanmcdirmid 2y ago
  This is the best illustration of the problem I’ve seen with historical context: https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://xkcd.com/1732/ We can still survive this, but it is unprecedented.