Maybe we should change the wording: from "climate change" to "extinction horizon"
@dbat Nah, we're not going to go extinct.
Probably millions of us will survive.
@yora @dbat Of course, if the human population is reduced to millions, that reduces the odds that humanity will survive the next existential threat. Every time you lose a large percentage of people, that's less diversity of genetics and experience to handle another shock. So climate change may not be sufficient to wipe out humanity, but what if it's e.g. accompanied by nuclear war triggered by resource wars?
@skyfaller @dbat I doubt even with the entire nuclear arsenal of the world going off, we would get anywhere close to killing every last person on earth.
But that's already moving goalposts.
@yora @skyfaller well I am cheered by the idea of people surviving the horizon. I wish we could send our best science and medicine etc. in a bottled form for them to pick up from somehow. Good luck you guys!