Comments on: We only have a 5 percent chance… https://habitablezone.com/2017/08/02/we-only-have-a-5-percent-chance/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hank https://habitablezone.com/2017/08/02/we-only-have-a-5-percent-chance/#comment-39875 hank Fri, 04 Aug 2017 14:13:45 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=66007#comment-39875 Environmental change will seriously degrade the productive capacity of our civilization, which will reduce our wasteful exploitive, polluting and consumptive activities, which will lead to an inevitable decline in what is causing the climate change in the first place. A lot more people will die and suffer than need to, but maybe next time we'll be more careful. Unfortunately, some of the damage will be long-lasting and irreparable. And some of our plans, like space travel and social justice, will have to be postponed--maybe indefinitely. Environmental change will seriously degrade the productive capacity of our civilization, which will reduce our wasteful exploitive, polluting and consumptive activities, which will lead to an inevitable decline in what is causing the climate change in the first place.

A lot more people will die and suffer than need to, but maybe next time we’ll be more careful. Unfortunately, some of the damage will be long-lasting and irreparable. And some of our plans, like space travel and social justice, will have to be postponed–maybe indefinitely.

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