Eventually, no one alive will survive.
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Lol, OK.
What do you disagree with, though?
Humans will perish, as will 90% of life on Earth.
Civilization likely will perish, but i doubt the species will short of a dramatic event.
We are degrading the environment slow enough to adjust.
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depends if you leaving on a seabord, which most people are. maybe tibetians in the tibetian plataeu. we also wont survive the opposite, an ICE AGE, which only some other hominid species can withstand the temps.
as a species, maybe, as a civilization, no.
Yup. That is my consensus. But the thing is: at what cost. At the cost of losing so much life and beauty
My biggest issue used to be that in the global industrial base collapses, we won't have surface coal/oil available to restart it. I've been informed that we might be able to restart just from turpentine. (Wind and solar both need advanced manufacturing techniques so can't be bootstrap electrical sources.)
That said, I don't think I'm very interested in hanging around after the global Internet collapses. My interests are too niche to be satisfied within a regional power grid.
Water is the only renewable energy source that isn't that much more complicated than coal.
It depends where the hot is coming from. If it's from inner earth we won't survive because people can't survive outside of this planet.