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Even if the climate crisis was hopeless, and it certainly isn’t by any stretch, what use is giving up?
The only folks I’m aware of calling the game early are the YouTube doomers. Those bottom feeders are pretty clearly just converting fear to ad revenue. Don’t feed them!
There’s still work to be done.
We're locked in for 6-10C of warming over the pre industrial baseline. That will be catastrophic for most large land animals at least. Best we can hope for now is delaying the warming with geo engineering.