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"I've only ever heard the claim that climate change is civilization ending as a strawman from so-called climate skeptics. " And yet, sentence from current top
by readthenotes1 1y ago
"I've only ever heard the claim that climate change is civilization ending as a strawman from so-called climate skeptics. "
And yet, sentence from current top comment:
" We're in a mass extinction."
- epistasis 1y agoWe are in a mass extinction. It is not civilization ending. Can you explain why you think these contradict each other?
- hobofan 1y agoI hope you realize that there are more species on earth than just humans.
- readthenotes1 1y agoOf course, but why would it matter unless it affects human civilization? There have been extinctions for the history of the world...
- xboxnolifes 1y agoMass extinction is not necessarily civilization ending. Half of all living species could die, 80% of all humans could die, and civilization would find a way to move on. It would still be an absolutely major catastrophic event. At the rate that temperature is increasing, assuming it is not stopped, it's not a matter of will there be an extinction event within the next few hundred years, but how bad will it be.