GLOBAL EXTINCTION WITHIN ONE HUMAN LIFETIME?

[Uncle Joe]

100. The word extinction is not hyperbole when used to describe the state of the natural world.

We use words like "endangered" to describe species on the verge of extinction and that's exactly what would happen to humanity should global warming go unchecked.

I believe it to be a safe bet that if 70% of the land vertebrates were to go extinct, the repercussions across the food chain would be so profound, 1% of human losses would be a ridiculously low estimate.

Our own vaunted technology in times of great stress could magnify our undoing, one thing about the "survivors;" of the Permian Extinction and asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs, none of them were capable of waging war to the magnitude that humans have accomplished.

They didn't have to worry about nuclear war on top of their natural catastrophes.

MAD is unlikely to happen during "normal" times, as virtually nobody wants to commit mass societal suicide, but global warming climate change at its' worst could be a catalyst dramatically altering that equation, pushing humanity past the sane envelope.