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I think we need to be realistic about what will actually happen. Climate change on the scale we're seeing isn't going to make the planet inhabitable.
What will happen is that it will be a more hostile environment to live in. Climate change is resulting in larger droughts/famines in areas that aren't used to it, as well as increased storms/flooding in other areas. Forest fires will get worse. Storms will get worse, species will die off, and if we don't have enough food to feed large cities, many will die and governments will collapse.
It won't be the end of the world, but the world will not be the same because of it.
Depends on what emissions scenario we end up hitting. Some of them are pretty scary. You can't say you know what will happen bcz we don't actually know how much CO2 we will have in the atmosphere in the next century, and climate change seems to be outpacing the models right now, so we really can't say if it will be worse or not.
I agree, most of what you've said is correct, but we cannot say it won't be much worse than that bcz we just don't know what we don't know.
What are some of the scary scenarios you have seen? I wouldn't mind reading up on some good sources that would be useful to keep an eye on.
Besides what we see in movies (unrealistic world ending scenarios), what I listed out seems to capture the realistic worst case scenarios that I have come across.
I haven't seen any projections that say that the atmosphere itself will become unbreathable (although we could see a lot more massive dust storms that would force people to remain inside or only go out with proper protection).