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Even more likely than that - we'll turn Earth into Venus long before we send a single person to another planet (if ever).



It's my understanding that while we can turn Earth into a pretty hazardous place that we do not have the total carbon required to re-create the exact venusian environment on Earth.

Your point still stands, however, regardless of exaggeration :(


You vastly overestimate the consequences our actions have on the planet.

The planet has been much different in the past.

No scientists at all, think that our effect on the planet is going to make it literally unlivable.

Trillions of dollars in damages over the next century maybe. But trillions of dollars in damages is just an Iraq War.


The planet have been different in the past.

Most of this past is incompatible with human civilization, as we know it.

For example, many scientists believe that the Permian extinction happened due to a rapid release of greenhouse gases, and rise in temperatures - by ~6C. 95% of the Earth's species were wiped out in a few years.

These kinds of events aren't trillions of dollars of damages. They are billions of human deaths, as ecosystems collapse, as the tropics and subtropics become uninhabitable.

Unfortunately for us, while CO2 may not cause such a drastic change in temperatures over the next few decades, methane release very well might.


I really wish I could share in your baseless optimism.




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