A long-ish op-ed style piece from me in Nature, in which I consider the question "how doomed are we?" tl;dr: it's an existential, philosophical, and personal question. It sometimes gets posed as if it were a scientific one, but it mostly isn't. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00790-6.pdf
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It's also a terrible rallying call for adaptation ... Save the world? Meh.
OTOH there's the "it's too late, why bother?" Doomism promoted by Big Oil.
OTO the "learning curve" passing Doomism per sorting out observations & science.
Censoring "learning" Doomism censors science & dilutes ASAP urgency.
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