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The whole fucking planet is gonna be burned to a god damned cinder because of these fucking freaks.
The foot is definitely on the gas pedal. This is everything accelerationists want.
I don't recall who said this but the planet will be fine, humans not so much.
George Carlin.
That's actually, surprisingly, huffing copium.
We're fucking our environment so bad, we may actually genuinely kill off all other life, not allowing there to be a way to regrow and evolve.
The level of heat and the speed at which it will come will be just too much for many species to adapt to.
Like maybe some bacteria in some deep oceanic vents will survive, but the vast majority of life on this planet is super, super, super fucked. Basically it's almost ensured that most multicellular life is toast.
https://www.washington.edu/news/2018/12/06/biggest-extinction-in-earths-history-caused-by-global-warming-leaving-ocean-animals-gasping-for-breath/
A changing climate was behind other mass extinctions but we also have pollution, overfishing the ocean, and mass destruction of forests. All this taken together creates very real risks that nobody will make it and Earth will return to being a lifeless rock and exist much like Venus.
I kind of don't care if a fucking hunk of rock spinning through space with no life on it is "fine."
Life survived a massive asteroid strike that basically caused photosynthesis to cease for several years, maybe decades, as well as being 100% covered by glaciers several times in what they call "snowball Earth".
Do you have any sources for "basically it's almost ensured that most multicellular life is toast" or is this supposition? I'm a biologist and, while I think anthropogenic climate change is an extreme threat, have yet to see even the most extreme projections getting us anywhere near what you're suggesting.
Based on what? Look at previous extinction events, especially Permian-Triassic. The earth survived 2500ppm CO2 concentration and an 8℃ increase in temperature. Tons of species went extinct but it was very far from being a lifeless rock.
Chicxulub impact? That makes simultaneously detonating all the nuclear weapons ever produced by humans look like a firecracker.
I don’t disagree with your assessment that tons of life will be absolutely fucked. I don’t agree though that we can somehow end life altogether on Earth. I don’t even think we could do that if we tried.
How does a vote on asylum rules affect climate change