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Not one mention of phytoplankton, responsible for between 50 and 80% of oxygen in the atmosphere.

We're doomed.

Actually, I think it's more of a problem that we're not doomed. Us rich people living in rich temperate countries with good barriers between us and the poor countries will be "fine" (https://giphy.com/explore/everything-is-fine)

We'll hide in our air-conditioned houses, eat greenhouse grown food since the natural environment is fucked, playing with our robot factory produced toys. Life will suck, but we'll be "fine". We'll be spending tens of trillions on flood barriers and other mitigation measures, but we'll be "fine". Most of us anyways, super storms will definitely get some of us. Others will die on the borders defending the rest of us from climate refugees. But most of us will be "fine".

Anybody or anything else that isn't a homo sapiens living in a rich temperate nation will be doomed.

Suppose all of those mitigations in your second paragraph are true. If phytoplankton die off in meaningful amounts, where will we get our oxygen?

We have thousands of years of oxygen banked in the atmosphere so it's not an issue on the same time scale as co2

Thanks! Since this was not obvious to me (and maybe isn't to others) here's a summary that cleared things up for me: https://blogs.nicholas.duke.edu/citizenscientist/oxygen-in-t...

Fascists are close to take power in some Europeans countries just because they had to accept a few dozens thousands of migrants from Syria/Afghanistan. And you expect rich countries to stand when dozens if not hundreds of millions of people will have to leave their countries?

There would be mass murder for the rich to keep doing business as usual.

Sure, we'll be "fine" under our fascist dictators who will be fine mass murdering refugees on the border.

You are familiar with the "everything is fine" GIF I linked, right?

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