• Critical_Insight@feddit.uk
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    11 months ago

    An asteroid impact or super volcano eruption has the potential to kill every single human on earth and end the human race. That’s what I mean by existential threat. I feel like many people think of climate change as something that’s on the same scale but it really isn’t. Saying stuff like “climate change will ruin us all” just isn’t true. There are degrees of bad and while climate change definitely is up there in the bad end of the spectrum there’s still events that are orders of magnitude worse.

    • Nudding@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      If we trigger tipping point after tipping point, we can turn earth into venus. You’re just wrong.