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You could definitely eliminate all further anthropogenic effects on climate by killing all humans
The gift of consciousness has manifested as a greedy accumulation of more resources than we need. We're destroying our own habitat. Perhaps consciousness is an evolutionary dead end? Would our extinction be less likely if we didn't have it?
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Perhaps consciousness is an evolutionary dead end? Would our extinction be less likely if we didn't have it?
Our extinction is a certainty either way. I don't think consciousness has much bearing on the matter. The extreme adaptability of humans is likely to defer their extinction as a species, but not by a significant amount on the geological time scale.
gbj_tester
This is what's known as a category error. Science has a model of which changes in human action would alter the extent of anthropogenic climate change, but how we deal with climate change is a political question. You could definitely eliminate all further anthropogenic effects on climate by killing all humans, but that may not be the most palatable solution politically.