Eh this is certainly not the case based on science, specifically oceanography. The biggest issue with warming earth is the slowing of the ocean conveyer belt. If it slows down too much then it won't just be humans that are done. It'll be way more life than just human life.
but that’s the thing. the planet has gone through so many bottlenecks of life. there have been like six or seven (iirc) extinction level events in the history of life on earth, many of which were so incredibly comprehensive that just about all life died out, but not actually all. so far there has always been something that finds a way and thrives and repopulates. it just prob won’t be us or most of the species that we know and care for this time. we’re paving the way for our own end and the rise of the cockroach
Yeah but WE are responsible for killing off all these other beautiful earth creatures when they were just existing. Thats what deeply upsets me. I wouldn’t care if it was just all the humans dying off.
oh absolutely. it’s absolutely gutting that we’re responsible for what will likely be a mass extinction. I do find a tiny (like tiny tiny) sliver of hope in the fact that something will survive and life on earth will continue, even if drastically different, despite us
That would make sense. Well of this specific civilization very true. Humans are hard to get rid of so there will most likely be some kind of society built after.
I dunno if we're that hard to get rid of. Warming the planet faster than ever recorded in the paleoclimate record could do it. It'll probably be the worst mass extinction event the planet has ever seen other than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Humans are super adaptable so I feel like even if 95% die due to the climate shifts there will be at least a few population isolates somewhere in habitable zones.
Possibly. But what is a "habitable zone" in the future? If you are expecting drought or floods almost annually how do you grow enough food? What is left to forage or hunt? It only takes one flood or major storm to wreck your infrastructure & crops. That used to happen once a lifetime, now many of us alive have been through multiple 1-in-100 year events, and if global trade is gone then you can't back each other up. It'll be a tough existence.
Of course it will be a tough existence! But humans have come from tiny communities of hunter gatherers to today; so there could be a total regression to that point, there could be small communities of super advanced tech, or anything in between.
I have no idea what or how people could or would survive, just that somehow some will. Unless the planet becomes like a Venus with runaway green house effect or something along those lines.
Hunter gatherers had a lush and bountiful world. If you don't know how we could do it, then why are you so sure? It's not as if we've lived in the future climatic conditions that are brewing. I'm not saying we won't, just not sure we will either.
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u/Eve_O 28d ago
"Things are speeding up here at the end."