I’m applying the brakes short of ending human civilization because, according to most experts, that’s not currently something that’s on track to happen (at least because of climate change). The world is currently on track for somewhere in the vicinity of 2.5 degrees of warming; my question is whether taking action to reduce that value by x degrees is a net positive or a net negative.
Yes, but if you’re concerned about animal suffering to the extent that you’d be willing to cause humans to suffer in order to mitigate it (as long as the math works out), then I think it’d be hard to get off the train that justifies ending all human lives, which will be a short-term blip that will improve wild and farmed animal suffering immensely.
I think the question is more, “do your philosophical views imply that ending all human civilization would be desirable?” as a gut check, rather than whether climate change is likely to lead to that. The implicit question is whether you are okay with philosophical views that imply it’s good to end human civilization.
I’m applying the brakes short of ending human civilization because, according to most experts, that’s not currently something that’s on track to happen (at least because of climate change). The world is currently on track for somewhere in the vicinity of 2.5 degrees of warming; my question is whether taking action to reduce that value by x degrees is a net positive or a net negative.
Yes, but if you’re concerned about animal suffering to the extent that you’d be willing to cause humans to suffer in order to mitigate it (as long as the math works out), then I think it’d be hard to get off the train that justifies ending all human lives, which will be a short-term blip that will improve wild and farmed animal suffering immensely.
I think the question is more, “do your philosophical views imply that ending all human civilization would be desirable?” as a gut check, rather than whether climate change is likely to lead to that. The implicit question is whether you are okay with philosophical views that imply it’s good to end human civilization.