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Bongo-1, VT's avatar

Interesting and very “scientific”. I still believe man has set the destruction of the planet in motion. I don't have much faith in us doing what is necessary to stop it. If humans die out lets hope that wildlife will adapt as they have around Chernobyl and survive.

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David Holzman's avatar

Flam is a prominent science writer.

I doubt that humans will die out. But the human population could easily be decimated, along with civilization as we know it. If that happens, I hope it happens after I'm gone.

Wildlife survived the meteor strike 66 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs. Wildlife will undoubtedly survive global heating, although it may take a few hundred thousand years before things look normal again.

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