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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's no way the climate crisis entirely wipes out humanity. However, we could be looking at a Mad Max style future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you mean by no way? People cant live underground forever, and itll get worse for more generations than is sustainable.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Civilization couldn't exist as it does today, but humans are a resilient species. We will find a way to continue living, pretty much as long as life remains on this planet. Be that underground, at the poles, in bunkers, in a dystopian desert wasteland, humanity will persist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the issue here is that you believe there will be any life living. Besides bacteria and what not, nothing will live if we continue down this path.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I don’t have a cristal ball to refute your answer but I have my knowledge about history and biology to disagree: life in earth has to main goals: survive and reproduce. There’re many species nowadays adapted to what most people consider extreme heat: from elephants to lions, hienas, giraffes, humans, many species of trees and bushes, etc. They will just survive by simply moving their migration routes somewhere else (plants and herbivores would start the shift, predators would follow them).

Humans are extremely adaptable, as you may see if you look at how there’s human life everywhere on the planet. We would need to adapt, for sure, but we as species will survive. That doesn’t mean it will be simple, but we will. Many years ago an expert said on a documentary (can’t remember, sorry) that the next world war would be centered about water control. I agree.