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Modern civilizations don't have that level of technology. We can make earth inhospitable to a lot of humans and a lot of mammals. But we're living through the 6th global extinction event, not the 1st. In a million years, modern humanity will be a distant memory one way or another and life will continue to thrive.
The worst case scenario of climate change is the inverse temperature variation of the last great Ice Age. This was an event that killed billions. But it was not an event that extinguished all life. Not even an event that extinguished all human life. And that's at the end of the century - 2100 - a year none of us were going to see under the most ideal conditions.
It would be presumptuous to believe our grandchildren would live to see "the end of the world". To insist its happening in the next 40-60 years? Come on.
That'd definitely a better way to understand history. We'll all live to see the end of our own cycle of existence. Then we'll pass the torch.
The end of the world as we know it