re: #158 freetoken

However, that is a worst case scenario, and I’ve not seen it proposed as anything that is likely to happen (in our civilization’s lifetime, anyway.) The people who raise this worst case scenario really ought to make it clear that it is the worst case scenario and that it is not predicted by any of the accepted Earth System models.

LVQ certainly makes it sound like something that could happen soon enough. And can we even call it the “worse-case” scenario? It happened once before (Permian) and the earth bounced back (eventually). The true worse-case scenario is James Hansen’s Earth-goes-full-Venus. That’s the only one I can’t bring myself to believe, because I want to console myself with the knowledge that, even though humans are dumb enough to kill off themselves and 95% percent of other species, someday a smarter or better life form might take our place. :/