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One: Toby Ord on existential risks
Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80000 Hours
Are We Going to Keep Emissions of Carbon in the Atmosphere?
It does seem pretty plausible that we could end up emitting as much carbon in the atmosphere again and then again. And while there are a lot of things which could very clearly cause a very large amount of human misery and damage, it's quite unclear how it could the extinction of humanity or some kind of irrevocable collapse of civilization. There has been some analysis if you had very large amounts of warming, such as ten degrees of warming, would start to make areas of the world uninhabitable? And it looks like the answer is yes,. at least being outside, air conditioning could still be much more habitable, say, than mars. But people are thinking though, if you run it through
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