For those of you who are in limbo like me and can't CTB, rejoice, for the end of the world is at hand! Climate change is irreversible and this shit show won't be able to continue at the rate it's going. So there is hope yet for us and our deliverance!
Yep. I'm pretty much clinging to the same desperate hope of a swift end to the world, so as to assure my own. Although, it bears mentioning, that modern industrial society, while insanely fragile & self-destructive, will probably keep afloat for a little while longer. At least another decade, I'd imagine. Civilization's days are numbered no doubt, but, unfortunately, its inevitable collapse is just far enough in the future to not be of any real use to someone like me as far as an easy means of a vicarious suicide is concerned. Hell, I might even be in my fifties (I'm 27 now) before shit really starts to unravel. Plus, do keep in mind that a collapse of this magnitude, despite what Hollywood may have led you to believe, isn't going to be an overnight extravaganza of giant explosions & mass death in the streets. If anything, it'll be a long grueling process of extreme austerity & restrictions being put on daily life before slowly, over time, things just start to breakdown & disappear. Mostly as a result of lack of resources and an ever more inhospitable climate. Rome may not have been built in a day, but it didn't collapse in a day either, so to speak. If only it didn't take the end of everything as we currently know it, to cause my death. It's all quite silly, isn't it?
Climate change will take a few more hundred years to end the planet though...
3rd World War with mutual assured destruction is far more likely imo
Well, you're half-right. Climate change will render this planet lifeless far sooner than you think. I'd imagine that 300 years from now, this planet will, odds are, be either resembling Mars or Venus. Either a boiling hellish cauldron, or a cold sterile rock with an almost non-existent atmosphere. Not that we humans will ever know for certain. We'll be long extinct by then.
A nuclear war though would, indeed, be an abrupt/terminal end for our species. From my view, one of the greatest myths propagated in the 20th century, and even to this day to some extent, is the absurd notion that a nuclear war could be survivable in any way, shape, or form for humans. Newsflash, but it wouldn't be. Like....at all. Agriculture would be an impossibility, all animal life would pretty much be extinct, the water/air/soil would be, for all intents & purposes, permanently contaminated, nuclear power plants caught in the blasts would also add greatly to the already heavy radiation blanketing the globe, the dust/debris from the explosions would create a thick overcast that would last for quite some time causing major issues for any kind of chance at survival (etc.) Keep in mind, that even a "minor exchange" between Pakistan & India would cause all this to happen to an enormous catastrophic effect. The fact of the matter is, we humans have a tendency to overestimate our adaptiveness by a fairly large margin. In reality, we, like most other mammals, are weak, needy, and can exist in only a narrow range of planetary conditions. Compared to beetles or nautiloids, we've never weathered anything particularly difficult as a species. Especially not on the level of a mass extinction event and, since we're now in the midst of one due to both exponential growth & climate change, I honestly can't see us lasting very long much longer. Not to mention, that both those two factors I just mentioned, make a nuclear exchange practically a guarantee. The only question is when within the next few decades will it happen. The fact that life on this planet, including us, will be blown away like a thin coat of dust on a dresser is, again, completely unavoidable. No great loss, frankly.