RE: Shutting down fossil fuel electric plants
October 22, 2018 at 11:48 pm
(This post was last modified: October 22, 2018 at 11:49 pm by Alan V.)
(October 22, 2018 at 11:05 pm)Rahn127 Wrote: The people on the planet, other species on the planet and all the food they eat to survive are in danger of going extinct when the temperatures get too hot to sustain life.
The human population has the very real potential of going extinct in less than 200 years.
I have read over 50 books on climate change and related subjects, and I can't remember any qualified scientist suggesting the human race could go extinct. Worst case scenarios are usually that certain parts of the globe may become uninhabitable in summer months without heavy use of air conditioning. The destruction of the coral reefs and the Amazon rainforest are very real possibilities, as well as the dustbowlification of the western United States. The flooding of coastlines will take hundreds of years. Of course we do run the risk of high levels of extinctions of other species, especially in the oceans. And we run a very real risk of overshoot and collapse of human populations, but nothing near extinction.
