(June 28, 2021 at 11:07 am)Angrboda Wrote: By most models, we are or will soon pass the point at which we can't contain global warming and it will become a largely runaway process.
If that happens, it could make the majority of the earth hostile to humans in a relatively short timespan.
Do you think this will happen within 100 years? Yes or no.
My understanding is that the biggest short term threat to global warming is nuclear war. More weather extremes are increasing, and that will disrupt more crops, resources, housing and transportation. The more humans get stressed out by climate disasters, the more they will infight, and fight other nations.
Humans have been past capacity for probably a century. The planet's birthrate always exceeds the death rate. And as such that increases the pace of consumption of resources, and especially fossil fuels. I cant say if humans will get a grip on this threat, but I can say, if there were to be a nuclear war, just let me know where a ground zero is, because I don't want to live in the aftermath.
I only hope if my species gets to that end, I am long gone.
But this planet is a tough nut. Even if we went extinct tomorrow, this planet will be around long after we go extinct, and it is very likely other life will survive our species. But regardless, billions of years from now, the sun will expand and if earth isn't destroyed by an meteor or comet, the sun will expand and fry all life on earth.
I do hope however, we can delay the inevitable short term. I don't know if we will though.
