It is the time frame that matters the most here . There is no doubt that we are threatening the ecosystem as a whole , and that if we do not change our way , things are going to turn bad . And I agree that every year matters here . But we are not going to be wiped out in the next ten years . And there seem to be many parallels between what is happening now and the end Permian . There is this great documentary that was made by BBC in 2002 that addressed the cutting edge science behind the Permian extinction called The Day the Earth Nearly Died . It is still well worth seeing , and a lot of research has come out in the past decade that supports its premise . Here is a link d a y t h e earthnearlydiedshortfilms