Is This the Year We Doom Civilization? We may be losing our last, best chance to limit climate change
Is This the Year We Doom Civilization?
A little or a lot more every year. Though humanity is pretty resourceful and nature has tardigrades, "never say never" to some post-apocalyptic 10k populations of one or the other surviving somewhere.
Right, collapse of modern civilization doesn't necessarily mean the extinction of humanity. We certainly won't be able to support 8-10 billion people, and not at the level of technology and luxury we enjoy, but I could see countries or cities with several million soldiering on.
I just fear those surving peoples will be under authoritarian rule for generations
Depends on the authority I guess. Controlled by science or controlled by god?
One is bad, and depending on who you are, it could be either.
You forgot option 3 controlled by people that want to maintain their power
That's probably the most likely.