All the oil and coal being burned that causes it used to be organic matter, like plankton. and before those died and captured it, all that co2 was in the atmosphere, and the earth was much hotter.
no matter how hot it gets because of this, there will be life left. and we’ll likely die before we can make it bad enough that only single cell organisms survive. It’ll still be terrible and take a long time to recover. but life will be fine in the long run
I hope that this take is correct, but I am afraid that it may not be. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the planet was different in a lot of ways - and the thought of a human-made mass extinction event that also takes out a lot of mammals is quite depressing.
All the oil and coal being burned that causes it used to be organic matter, like plankton. and before those died and captured it, all that co2 was in the atmosphere, and the earth was much hotter.
no matter how hot it gets because of this, there will be life left. and we’ll likely die before we can make it bad enough that only single cell organisms survive. It’ll still be terrible and take a long time to recover. but life will be fine in the long run
I hope that this take is correct, but I am afraid that it may not be. Hundreds of millions of years ago, the planet was different in a lot of ways - and the thought of a human-made mass extinction event that also takes out a lot of mammals is quite depressing.