I think you're wrong about timeframe. Some parts of the middle east will be functionally uninhabitable for part of the year by the end of the century under almost all projections. https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/12/151215-global-warming-heat-wave-stress-death-climate/ … (And the current projections are less optimistic than those ones were.)
i'd say it's somewhat informative about future mitigation efforts but not about population growth or technological stagnation
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Population growth is a relatively minor source of uncertainty through the end of the century. Tech is a huge wildcard, but banking on a breakthrough there, as opposed to hoping for one and investing, seems irresponsible given that specific future tech advances are unreliable.
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we should take pessimistic possibilities into account but not use or present them as typical possibilities
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