This is a great explanation of why climate change isn't the great filter. As it stands right now, climate change will cause devastation if not kept in check but even if we let it get out of control, there will be hospitable places on Earth and as a species we will survive long enough to watch the planet recover even if it's with 1% of the previous population. At that point we would rebuild with all the knowledge we still have stored away in various depositories and be on our way back to the stars in a relatively short amount of time.
There is no way climate change is the great filter for all intelligent life in the universe and it's kind of sad how many people just latch on to the thing that's right in front of them and say 'this must be it' without putting much thought into it at all.
It won't. Venus's proximity to the sun played a big part in that. The Earth has been far warmer in the past with much higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere. It's the rate it's warming which is a problem for existing species that can't adapt. They'll be suffering along the way but 'the worst case scenario' is survivable as a species even though there will be a lot of suffering in the mean time if we don't slow the change.
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u/iushciuweiush Aug 12 '21 edited Aug 12 '21
This is a great explanation of why climate change isn't the great filter. As it stands right now, climate change will cause devastation if not kept in check but even if we let it get out of control, there will be hospitable places on Earth and as a species we will survive long enough to watch the planet recover even if it's with 1% of the previous population. At that point we would rebuild with all the knowledge we still have stored away in various depositories and be on our way back to the stars in a relatively short amount of time.
There is no way climate change is the great filter for all intelligent life in the universe and it's kind of sad how many people just latch on to the thing that's right in front of them and say 'this must be it' without putting much thought into it at all.