> Who specifically is saying this?
In this thread, madaxe_again: 'Our extinction is coming, and the only tragedy is all the other life we'll take with us.'
> I haven’t seen these supposed pessimists’ reports from 1950 predicting “doomsday” by 2000.
The so-called 'Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' has been predicting Doomsday since 1947: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_Clock
My prediction? In twenty years we'll look back on global warming like we do on D&D suicides, satanic ritual abuse and militias: just another instance of mass hysteria.