Even if Europe stays put & just accepts being destroyed, CCP's long-game will opportunistically wage war against the remnants of the West, for sake of breaking the world to their rule, replacing the US's rule.

"The destruction of the West is the midwife of Chinese dominion."

Throw Putin & other powerful imperialists into the mix, & the Accelerationist-nihilist-oligarchs, & removing food-security from Europe ( by eradicating the atlantic's warming of it in winters ) & the militarized-rabies that is produced does have extinction-level consequences.

there's another forcing-process underlying all this, too:

population-saturation-rage.

It's been seen in rats & humans.

In rats, if you have a closed-ecology ( just as we have, with our finite-planet ), & the rats have enough food to keep increasing their population-density,

they will..

..until they're TOO crowded, when suddenly they become crazy, & cannibalistic, until the population's butchered-down enough, & then they go back to sane ( there's a hysteresis-loop in the process ).

The same happens with humans: pressurize the human-population enough, & there's a "snap" from sanity to nihilism.

During the end of WW2, it happened in the European front, & the German word for the mind-mode produced is "lustmord", or deathlust.

That mis-identifies it, though: it's MURDER-greed.

I think that some of the Russians fighting in Ukraine are demonstrating it, perfectly.

It looks like the mass-shooting-epidemic in the US is demonstrating it perfectly, too.

So, what happens when entire regions get flipped into that mode, not just scattered individuals?

Mass-extinction.

"War becomes the drug.", as some realized, in Yugoslavia, years ago..

The feedback-loops amplify everything, until sanity no-longer is any sort of option, & the result of THAT population's enforcing its "answer" looks completely different from what we're used-to living among.

Sorry to be blunt, but the less we know objectivity, the greater the % of the population who'll be destroyed by our ignoring/denying ( including mine: this is global viability, not ideological )

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[–] FaceDeer@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

And you think this will happen simultaneously, to everyone on the planet everywhere at the same time? Including all the remote uncontacted tribes, isolated island nations, the herders and farmers in various hinterlands, and so forth? And once everyone gets "deathlusted" they'll all just act like crazed zombies, murdering and murdering until there's just two left and then they strangle each other in the wreckage?

You're demonstrating another example of interpreting "the end of my personally familiar comfortable lifestyle" as "the end of the whole entire world, full stop, it's all over and gone."

I'm sure there were people during the Bronze Age Collapse who thought it was the end of the world. And for their definition of "the world", I guess it was. But humanity is so much larger than your little personally-familiar corner of the world.

Sorry to be blunt, but the less we know objectivity, the greater the % of the population who'll be destroyed by our ignoring/denying ( including mine: this is global viability, not ideological )

Bear in mind: extinction requires that the % needs to be exactly 100%. Exactly. 99% won't do it.