I’m graduating with a major in Environmental Science this week, and my take on it is that realistically, we’re probably going to face large scale environmental disaster, which social and legislative action will be considerably too little, too late to prevent, but which sophisticated technological interventions may significantly mitigate, and which will probably constitute a fairly major mass extinction event. The impacts on human society will be significant, but it’s not a major existential risk for us, per se.
I’m graduating with a major in Environmental Science this week, and my take on it is that realistically, we’re probably going to face large scale environmental disaster, which social and legislative action will be considerably too little, too late to prevent, but which sophisticated technological interventions may significantly mitigate, and which will probably constitute a fairly major mass extinction event. The impacts on human society will be significant, but it’s not a major existential risk for us, per se.