Reread the Leiserowitz quote, and then revise it to say Never underestimate the ability of the human species to more than replace its losses.

Lethal viruses and their variants might succeed.

Good article but it doesn't mention the new hand-off to NASA for the issue. This opens their budget and science resources to the problem and the NASA budget is huge (but can easily grow). That gives me some hope.

I recently received an unsolicited mini-lecture from a claims adjuster, no less, who insisted manmade climate change is a hoax, that there is insufficient data to prove any real climate change, and fossil fuel burning doesn't matter.