Ecological Collapse is not an Existential Risk

·EA Forum··

Published on August 13, 2026 10:40 PM GMTA lot of environmental groups say that we are destroying the earth, and our short-sightedness will bring the world crashing down around us. At EcoResilience Initiative, we've looked into these claims, and while some of them threaten the richness of the Earth's ecosystems, none of them pose a serious risk to the continuation of human civilization.The three extinction risks from ecological breakdown are: failure of critical life systems, cascading collapse,...

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