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Earth has been here before us, it will be here Afterwards with humanity as a footnote to the list of things it survived with little effort
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We're just creating another mass extinction event. The earth has seen multiple of those and it'll see more. We're not likely to. >

Except the greenhouse effect is exponential, Earth will likely end up like Venus; we'll effectively have destroyed the ecosystem beyond repair