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Originally Posted by xelasnave
...we have a very serious problem that potentiallymay see the planet become uninhabitable ...
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Uninhabitable is a difficult term. What do we mean by it?
- Everything dies. Not going to happen. The Earth has been hotter than we are likely to make it and life endured.
- All humans die. Unlikely. Even on the worst case, some people will hold on somewhere. I suspect that actually quite large numbers (billions) will survive.
The most likely disaster IMHO is that food production slumps/collapses. Also, sea level rise floods most of our major cities and disrupts distribution networks. The result is mass starvation. The starving people go looking for food - carrying guns. Food wars are a real possibility and that is a very nasty scenario. However, total extinction of humans is overstating the situation.