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Humanity on the precipice (Toby Ord)

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The Risk of Climate Change Is Extremely Severe

There is a perception, sometimes in the popular medea and and popular discourse, that climate change ar posers say has a two thirds chance of destroying humanity's entire future. I don't think it works like that. It's very hard to lead to a situation where we can't maintain civilization. A lot of people underrate climate change as an existential risk because they just assume that these kinds of more typical scenarios are all that there is. But i'm not sure if you know exactly how much risk climate change poses, but i think it's even more overrated than first thought.

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