I guess people didn’t understand my point. If we don’t curb our carbon emissions, we’re certainly going to have a climate that we never lived and it will kill a lot of people. But it’s not unlimited, at some point we will not be able emit more carbon, because there’s no more or we lost the ability to do so. So while fewer than today, there will probably still be habitable places like Nothern Canada and Russia. I think humanity would be able to survive there, although much smaller and the centuries of disasters would have destroyed our civilisations as we know them.

People probably thought I’m denying the urgency to do an ecological transition, but I’m not. I’m trying to comment on what would actually happen, similarly to previous comment saying that the planet itself is not going to die.

As opposed to geo-engineering our way into global warming like we have been?

“Oh no, don’t try anything! We might be too successful.”

I know, but that’s a very detached and unemotional take… Sure “life” will keep existing. But not the life we know. That we love. That we grew up loving so much.

I understand not everyone feels exactly like me. But I was absurdly fascinated by biology books and wildlife documentaries and would read and watch them religiously as a child.

Thinking of all of that just dying and ending truly breaks my heart. Almost more than anything.

Just not as much as the thought of humanity disappearing. But I know most people share that sadness.

I can’t explain how knowing all the animals you grew up loving will die forever is sad. If you don’t feel it you don’t I guess.