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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

You're not wrong at all, humans won't go extinct. The alarming thing is all the other things which will go extinct or be reduced in number, and the change in water/soil/weather sources obviously. Biodiversity and not having your neighbourhood turned into a desert are pretty important things to like, not have life suck. Plus you know, having access to clean water... humans will keep growing in number (mainly in Africa, probably the opposite in the developed world and countries like China and India though), but in 50 years we'll all be living like wartorn Syrian children*

*I am not a climate scientist, nor do I have much actual knowledge on climate science, so I do not know which precise flavor of impoverished middle eastern we will become

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree at all but this seems to be a common misconception. See the OP from the Twitter thread and the angry bees I’ve enraged.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I think it speaks to how little nuance people are willing to tolerate before they throw a person in the "on my side" or "not on my side" category. And it speaks to how little people actually know about the science behind the activism they're apparently a part of.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

This is the thing for me, everyone who makes that argument is actually saying "a temperature change won't make us extinct." They don't care that we'll go extinct from the effects because cars go brrrr.