QuilotoaWe live in one of the best times in the history of humanity, but many are frustrated because the last generation had it better.
Bullshit. That’s just doomer hysteria.
I mean, I didn’t say world ending, I said species ending. With climate change we have already observed species going extinct at an increasingly quick pace, and it’s hubris to think we couldn’t eventually be one of them if things continue.
Likewise, the potential for nuclear war seems less unlikely than it did 5 years ago, 10, or 20 years ago, and would wipe out many species and could potentially wipe out humanity, or enough of humanity to permanently reshape the species.
The rhetoric of the entire world ending is extremist, but it’s not sci-fi anymore to imagine that in a few generations there may be no recognizable modern humans, even if there are bipedal hominids still roaming around. It’s not even speculative to imagine a world missing many of its current species, just go to any coral reef and compare it to pictures from 50 years ago.
None of those things will end human life. It will simple be reduced. It has happened before.
The issue with climate change isn’t the change, or the magnitude of the change, its the rate of change. Life as a whole will adapt, but its not hyperbolic to talk about civilization altering effects. We already have island nations being buried underwater in decades instead of millenia, this isn’t normal.
Sure, things are going to persevere, humanity probably will persevere, but we also persevered through the black plague, doesn’t mean we wouldn’t have tried to prevent the plague if we had the chance. Climate change is clearly brought about by human activities, and if we want to continue our historical upward trend in quality of life, we need to reduce our CO2 output.