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In reply to the discussion: Frankly, the world as we know it is going away, soon. [View all]muriel_volestrangler
(106,171 posts)The point about 10,000 years (and it's my point, not a time that is set in all the literature) is that it delimits the time when humans have had agriculture. The whole of humanity now depends on agriculture, and climate affects that enormously. We have also, in that time, settled down in villages, towns and cities, which are difficult to move, unlike our former nomadic lifestyle. And there are literally a thousand times more people than 10,000 years ago. Our way of life cannot move as easily as we could 50,000 years ago. This is not about the disappearance of all life from earth; it's about keeping human societies going in a comfortable form without billions of excess deaths. We have started changing the climate, and it will change further, but we can limit the changes with action.
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