re: mh (~), climate change (incidental; inadvertently subtooty <3 ), misanthropy
Oh, wait. I would've been dead in 30 years anyhow _anyhow_. Good luck, millennial suckers. :D
Nah, honestly, if I weren't in the mood to just indulge the pessimism, I'd make a big rallying Jeff Winger Speech about how humanity took all of eight years to master nuclear fission once we decided that's what we wanted. So once the sociopolitical dimensions of this are conquered...
Well, anyhow, that logical path's reserved for somebody who hasn't already decided they're happy if a few select mammal and bird species survive, and would actually kinda rather see humanity get knocked down to ~1700 AD populations anyhow...
Listen, humanity's not gonna go extinct. Our "civilization" is. What, you think life in the resulting Mad Max environs is gonna be any more difficult than being, say, an Inuit or a San Khoisan? You have no idea how little a human being can get by on... because you're a citizen of the 21st-century developed world. You don't have to like it— I sure don't— but something will survive. And maybe it'll prove humanity doesn't deserve total extinction after all.
Anyhow. Rambling. Need to work. Not sure I care. It all seems so futile now.</paranoid_android> :)