Climate change (extreme risks) - 80,000 Hours

Climate change will affect all our lives and gravely damage livelihoods around the world. But how pressing is climate change compared to other global catastrophic risks?

Climate change | 80,000 Hours Search for: On this page: Introduction 1 Could extreme climate change directly lead to the extinction of humanity? 1.1 How hot could it get? 1.2 Could climate change simply make it too hot for humans to survive? 1.3 Could the world sink under water? 1.4 Could climate change destroy global agriculture? 1.5 How would extreme climate change affect biodiversity? 1.6 Summing up: why climate change almost definitely won’t directly cause human extinction 2 How climate change could cause extinction indirectly anyway 2.1 Climate change will likely increase migration,

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