I mostly endorse this, but want to add that the only proposal of “climate changed driven extinction” I’ve heard about specifically requires human action, wherein we attempt to do a massive geoengineering project to curtail climate change that *requires continuous intervention*, and then prematurely *stop* that intervention.
(This is half-remembered from a talk Seth Baum gave awhile back)
I mostly endorse this, but want to add that the only proposal of “climate changed driven extinction” I’ve heard about specifically requires human action, wherein we attempt to do a massive geoengineering project to curtail climate change that *requires continuous intervention*, and then prematurely *stop* that intervention.
(This is half-remembered from a talk Seth Baum gave awhile back)