“The Great Dying” Redux? Shocking Parallels Between Ancient Mass Extinction and Climate Change

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7. Replacing solar energy inputs with fossil fuel put humans on a very risky path

Many sages speculating on the future have pondered what percent of civilizations in the universe survive the discovery of atomic energy, yet have ignored or simply remained oblivious to the risks of a k-selected species getting caught in a population flush built upon fossil energy reserves.

As a species we now face risks from both environmental degradation related to the wastes of our flush in resource exploitation and the crash of the energy subsidies that have enabled it.

It's an open question about which process will soon shrink the human population by billions--environmental degradation or the exhaustion of fossil fuels.