It’s like saying, “Who cares if your house burns down if you make it out alive?” Um actually, I kinda like my stuff. I don’t want to lose everything for something totally avoidable like not storing a fire extinguisher or using smoke detectors.

Global warming will probably not be the end of life on earth. Probably not even human life. But it has a very real potential for drastically reducing our way of life, even for the billionaires among us. We are facing the metaphorical loss of our house to a fire, to use the earlier analogy.

I suppose it’s possible that humans gradually migrate to the poles. Antarctica is pretty big. But it won’t necessarily be a comfortable or fun experience, if that happens. And it probably wouldn’t happen for a few hundred years at the earliest. On a geological timescale, Earth will recover, the carbon will eventually sequester itself somewhere underground or in the oceans. But the timescales are immense, like on the order of the entire history of Homo sapiens, or longer.