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Environment & Energy

-misanthroptimist

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3. While I think CC will kill billions of people...

Reply to hatrack (Reply #2)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 09:15 AM

Yesterday

...I think that our species will survive. We are very clever individually and in small groups. If Earth can sustain life, there will be people who figure out how to survive, imo. It may not be many and they may be (almost certainly will be) miserable, they'll survive.

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February 2026 Atmospheric CO2 Content 429.35 ppm; February 2025 427.09 ppm; February 2024 424.55 ppm [View all] hatrack Yesterday OP

I'm so old... -misanthroptimist Yesterday #1

And after this year, we'll never see 430 ppm or lower again . . . hatrack Yesterday #2

While I think CC will kill billions of people... -misanthroptimist Yesterday #3

True, in that we're a pretty weedy species . . . hatrack Yesterday #5

It was about 310 in 1958 according to data from Mauna Loa surfered Yesterday #4

And every ppm represents 2.13 billion tons of CO2 . . . hatrack Yesterday #6

We're toast! surfered Yesterday #7