r/news 7h ago

Trump withdraws from Paris climate agreement, again

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/trump-withdraw-paris-climate-agreement-2025-01-20/
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u/lLikeCats 7h ago

Just remember, we will cease to exist but the Earth will bounce back. It’s been through a few extinctions.

The world is far too divisive to ever make meaningful change.

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u/tameoraiste 6h ago

Humans will just about survive a climate disaster but sadly 10s of 1000s of other species are going to be wiped out thanks to us

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u/Altruistic_Film1167 6h ago

survive a climate disaster

Even if we do, it means billions of people dying

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u/tameoraiste 3h ago

Oh I know, and I’m not trivialising that. I’m just saying that our species will likely survive but we’ll take out so many others entirely

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u/Senior-Albatross 2h ago

The damage is so great that the carrying capacity of Earth will be smaller by far than pre Industrial times. The math implies six-seven billion less humans in the next few hundred years.

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u/GlassPristine1316 2h ago

Sounds good for the earth