Reply #49: "We" the species isn't much comfort [View All]

Homo sapiens may survive as a species, but millions and millions of individuals will not survive this climate upheaval.

At certain critical times in the past only small groups of humans (perhaps as few as 10-20) managed to navigate global disasters. That may induce a certain level of conceptual optimism into a Doomsday scenario, but it's a bleak kind of comfort in the face of a catatostrophic number of dead.

Yay for those "lucky" 20 who get to scrabble for scraps amidst the rubble of civilization, yay for the future throngs of humanity that will repopulate the world in some far distant millenia, but the rest of us living in the here-and-now are royally screwed.