Eight: Mark Lynas on climate change
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours
How Likely Is It That Climate Change Will Lead to Extinction?
How likely do you think it is that climate change will lead to the breakdown of industrial civilization as we know it? And i gess, secondarily, how likely might it be to effectively cause human extinction? Well, for me, the question isn't quite in the way youve framed it. It's one thing to have a kind of apocalyptic here and another to actually try and think through what the mechanism which will actually kill people,. If that's what you're concerned about. What kills people? Thirst kills people. War kills people. Hunger kills people. People die because of lack of shelter. Though, it's different degrees of civilization or collapse. We've never had a major
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