Ecological Collapse is not an Existential Risk by Tandena Wagner

A 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, or de...