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I wonder how many years of carbon accumulation we have burned so far. The oil we have burned is 800 million years of algae? That's just a wild guess. Extinction is a normal natural process. Most of the species that have existed have gone extinct, we should start trying to come to terms with knowing that it is our turn to join them. Collectively, we have been and will remain unwilling to do what it takes to save ourselves.
That's just called "death". Everything that lives today is descended from an organism that existed before it. The idea that humans would just... stop existing, rather than producing variants that were more acclimated to the subsequent iteration of earth's biome seems unlikely, particularly given how rapidly we've learned to adapt to changing ecological conditions.
Given that humans - as a species - survived the Ice Age, they'll likely survive the Heat Age in some form or another.