
Life According to Longtermism (w/ Émile P. Torres)
GRIFTONOMICS
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The Existential Risk of Climate Change?
Climate change is something that a, you know, for earth at least, has a very real kind of risk profile. But i have seen and heard a long termists describe climate changes not or not considered as existential risk. So if we were ju to stop burning fossil fuels right now, ah, we would affect the earth climate for at least ten thousand years sor so. Ten thousand years is a really long time. I mean, thatte the one lthic revolution, which is when agriculture first emerged. That was about ten thousand years ago. Ah, but from a grand cosmic view, that is nothing. You know, we could survive in the universe for something like ten to forty
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