Not sure if climate change denier or future-technology-will-save-the-world believer?
Sceptic on all of those questions, and more.
There was going to be a tl;dr, but this is neither the time nor the place.
Executive summary:
It really doesn't matter whether mankind self-destructs and takes every other species down with him, or gets destroyed without any other species even noticing. We're all going to be swallowed up by the red giant sun pretty soon*, and the science predicting that is way stronger than either the climate or economic models of where we're headed in the next century.
*Soon in this instance meaning we're already past the halfway point of the complete history of life on earth.
Sceptic on all of those questions, and more.
There was going to be a tl;dr, but this is neither the time nor the place.
Executive summary:
It really doesn't matter whether mankind self-destructs and takes every other species down with him, or gets destroyed without any other species even noticing. We're all going to be swallowed up by the red giant sun pretty soon*, and the science predicting that is way stronger than either the climate or economic models of where we're headed in the next century.
*Soon in this instance meaning we're already past the halfway point of the complete history of life on earth.