<story><title>Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1037023551</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Manuel_D</author><text>&amp;gt; 56% agreed with the viewpoint that humanity is doomed, according to the study.&lt;p&gt;Climate change is a serious issue, and one that stands poised to do a substantial amount of harm, but if the majority of young people think that humanity is doomed then I seriously suspect that there&amp;#x27;s misinformation about the impact of climate change at play here. Even the more pessimistic outlooks of climate change still leave substantial areas of habitable climate. Many societies would be harmed, and disproportionately among lower income equatorial countries, but I think it&amp;#x27;s a massive stretch to say that humanity is doomed based on our climate projections.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>skyfaller</author><text>I think it&amp;#x27;s irresponsible to act as though the climate crisis is just a matter of weather, and not how also we will respond to it. Resource shortages caused by the climate crisis could cause resource wars, and if weapons of mass destruction are deployed during those wars, that could easily finish off homo sapiens.&lt;p&gt;The mere collapse of civilization and mass death should be bad enough that we take drastic action to prevent it, but I do also think it would be foolish to dismiss the possibility of human extinction.</text></comment>
<story><title>Young People Are Anxious About Climate Change, Say Governments Are Failing Them</title><url>https://text.npr.org/1037023551</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Manuel_D</author><text>&amp;gt; 56% agreed with the viewpoint that humanity is doomed, according to the study.&lt;p&gt;Climate change is a serious issue, and one that stands poised to do a substantial amount of harm, but if the majority of young people think that humanity is doomed then I seriously suspect that there&amp;#x27;s misinformation about the impact of climate change at play here. Even the more pessimistic outlooks of climate change still leave substantial areas of habitable climate. Many societies would be harmed, and disproportionately among lower income equatorial countries, but I think it&amp;#x27;s a massive stretch to say that humanity is doomed based on our climate projections.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>over_bridge</author><text>I think what people mean by &amp;#x27;humanity is doomed&amp;#x27; isn&amp;#x27;t about whether the homo sapiens species will continue - it will.&lt;p&gt;The fear is more that society collapses. Our way of life may be doomed. With our extreme focus on career specialisation over the past century, very few, if any of us have the generalist skills to thrive in a world equivalent to pre-industrial times. It&amp;#x27;s not something to shrug at. What country can actually live as a self contained unit without global supply lines and dependencies? What families or individuals could?&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s also true that there will be substantial areas of habitable climate. The problem is that people who weren&amp;#x27;t lucky enough to be born and live in one, won&amp;#x27;t simply accept their fates and die. Eight billion people will surge into a relatively small habitable band - in the process this will destroy the arable land and severely strain systems like water, power, waste and healthcare.</text></comment>