Comment by api

If you compare our impact per capita and per dollar of GDP it’s much less today than 50 years ago. There’s just more dollars and more capita.

We are getting better at this. Time will tell if we are getting better at it fast enough. Ask someone in 2126.

And no I don’t think we will be dead, but if we do too much damage the world may be severely degraded and they might be quite angry at previous generations for basically leaving them with the bill.