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Quick changes in climate generally lead to extinction events. And indeed we are in the middle of one. And it's caused by us

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

Life will go on. Humans? Maybe. Human civilization will be disrupted for sure

Also: here's a visualization of how fast the climate changed in the last 20000 years vs today

https://xkcd.com/1732/

The short term effects are all about the slope. And the short term is all that matter to us, because if we don't pass through this bottleneck we won't have a long term (it may well be our "great filter" preventing us from spreading through the stars)



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