Humans as a species, I'm not too worried about -- we're resilient. But the elaborate social superstructures we've been building over the years -- modern civilization and modern technology -- that is far more fragile than we care to admit.
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It does not take a dropkick to bring down a house of cards, a little breeze suffices
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I think you are overly optimistic that it will take a century or two. The current modal projection of the current status quo is an increase of 4 Celsius increase by 2100 (and these are most likely underestimates). Collapse will happen in our lifetime.
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Most likely ongoing devolution of capital markets, collapse of Western civ, and fragmentation of world wide web. Timeline ~2040-2095.
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We’ve been slowly eating ourselves since 9/11 Lots of metrics changed direction then and have yet to reverse
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