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‘Climate change is here’: Experts warn global crisis is decades ahead of forecasts
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2026
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Climate change can't kill us all unless we hit some strange runaway effect that wasn't triggered when atmospheric CO2 levels were higher 500 million years ago (although the sun was 5% less bright back then). There might only be a couple million people hanging out on tropical Antarctica, but they could survive.
Humans are hardy; our species survived the ice age and the accompanying desertification of Africa with just some sharp rocks, our species can survive a mass extinction event with all our modern science and technology.
No, if we die out entirely, it will be fascism that does it. Shitheads that would rather burn the last remaining footholds of human survival than let the future exist outside of their control.
Humans will survive, civilization won't. And since we already dug up and burnt all fossil fuels that are reachable with primitive methods, it might not be possible to jump-start development beyond medieval tech ever again.