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My personal, uneducated opinion is that we are going to have a period of ever-worsening crises, mainly because climate change is nowhere near to being at max ferocity yet. But I mean, humans are great at adapting to change. Maybe once things get bad enough, once people realise just how badly we fucked up and there's absolutely no reason to believe in the lie of capitalism anymore, humanity will rise from the ashes and things will get better. But I'm not looking forward to seeing what's next.
edit: I don't like exactly how this is worded. But I hope the gist of it comes across.
Yeah, it seems likely to me that humans as a species will survive through the various climate crises, but I think the question is - at what cost? A lot of the scientific research and tech developments that might help us cope with or reduce the impact of climate change seem pretty reliant on our global system of trade / supply chain, and COVID showed how fragile that system is. I worry that by the time it gets bad enough that everyone is on board with doing what we can to reduce our impact, it'll be too late because the systems that could create those new options will not be capable of operating at the level we assume is normal today.
Grim, but not out of the question.