Climate Collapse

Current trajectories show CO₂ emissions continue to rise, pushing global temperatures toward 2–3 °C above pre‑industrial levels by mid‑century. This is already amplifying extreme weather, destabilizing food and water supplies, and accelerating sea‑level rise. As warming passes key tipping points—such as massive permafrost methane release, Amazon forest die‑back, and West Antarctic ice sheet collapse—feedback loops could drive runaway heating. The resulting environmental chaos would outpace adaptation, trigger large‑scale migration and resource conflicts, and undermine the economic and political systems that sustain modern civilization, ultimately leading to a collapse of global society. While other risks (nuclear war, pandemics, AI) exist, climate change is the only ongoing, systemic driver that, if not curtailed, is likely to render large parts of the planet uninhabitable and precipitate the end of the world as we know it.