Even if all emissions stopped tomorrow for good, temperatures would continue to rise, our climate would continue to destabilize, and the mass extinction event currently underway would continue.
Like your comment says, we have likely fucked the climate enough that we’ll probably be gone within a couple hundred years.
The problem is, we’ve killed off so many species and damaged our biodiversity to such an extent, that by the time biological life could evolve to a similar level of biodiversity like we once enjoyed, our sun will already be expanding enough that earth has become uninhabitable.
We won’t. Building self-sustaining colonies on non-habitable planets is so hard that it’d take us hundreds of years to pull it off, and we simply don’t have the time.
Based on our sun’s life cycle, it’s not likely.
Even if all emissions stopped tomorrow for good, temperatures would continue to rise, our climate would continue to destabilize, and the mass extinction event currently underway would continue.
Like your comment says, we have likely fucked the climate enough that we’ll probably be gone within a couple hundred years.
The problem is, we’ve killed off so many species and damaged our biodiversity to such an extent, that by the time biological life could evolve to a similar level of biodiversity like we once enjoyed, our sun will already be expanding enough that earth has become uninhabitable.
We did it guys!
Oh well, hopefully we don’t spread to other planets in the mean time.
We won’t. Building self-sustaining colonies on non-habitable planets is so hard that it’d take us hundreds of years to pull it off, and we simply don’t have the time.
That warms my cockles.