What you have just told me is that you have not done any serious research into the actual effects of climate degradation. Whether or not you had a personal experience of there being lots of insects, it is a fact that their populations are in freefall. Fertility in many clades of life is dropping off as well due to excess heat (yes that’s a thing).

Agriculture will collapse regardless of this as our soil fertility plummets as well. There are always more fertilizers, that drain into the ocean and cause algal blooms that create dead zones where there is no oxygen. Happens more and more.

Idk why you are so confident that it will not dramatically affect you.

Where are all of the insects and small animals in those forests? In many places around the world the populations of these creatures have decreased by 75% over the last 50 years. That grass you went out to touch is an invasive species that we have cultivated so widely that it is eradicating the breeding grounds of insects.

I know that you think your personal experience is more telling than decades of research and data by scientists but nature is not ‘persisting’ in the way you claim. It is slowly dying.

I’m one of those doomers. Looking at the science, at the data and the new findings that come out every year, it’s not even really debatable that all of civilization will collapse within the next century.

Genuinely. That’s where we’re at.

1.5C is dead. 2C is dead. 3C is on its last legs and we are on track for 8-10C avg temp rise globally. The oceans will be practically dead acidic wastes by then, the insect populations will collapse and anything that needs pollinated will follow suit.

I am all for dying in the streets defending what we have from fascists and preventing them from making the last few decades we have exponentially worse, but I think it’s wrong to claim that we can have a good future.

We can perhaps save a few million more people by the end of the century so that the total human population will be maybe near a billion.

That’s the best I can offer. Mass starvation and death. Sorry