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CO2 is a red herring.

> What are you basing this on?

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/09/can-modernity-last/ worth a read, goes into much more detail than I can.

Your comment implies that one can simply disconnect the factors that affect human livability and other life livability. As you predict yourself biodiversity will - is - going down. Extinction rates are at more than 1000x the baseline. Humans are part of the complex systems that makes up the community of life. What do you base your claim on that we can simply define us into another category and avoid the myriad causes that makes life miserable to the point of extinction for countless other species?



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