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Climate change is not going to destroy the planet. It will just make things inconvenient for some people. Some large population centers will continue to get flooded on a regular basis until people migrate away from those places. Other places will have draught and will have shortages of drinking water and will be forced to pay high prices for water. There will be lots of fires in other places as we have seen a huge rise in this sort of thing. Stronger storms, hail, tornados in places that never used to have these things.
As for pollution and radiation, those will just cause a continuing rise in cancer rates as we have seen throughout the past 50 years.
And there will be a change to some major parts of the ecosystem as many species die out. Some species like mosquitos and jellyfish will do very well, while others like regular fish that we eat not so well.
Life will go on, but there will be a big geographical change in population over the next 50-100 years. Some places at sea level that have huge cities today will probably be rather desolate in another century or even under water.
The planet will exhaust its supply of fossil fuels long before we "destroy" the planet. But life may be inconvenient for some in the future. And when the day does come that we do run out of fossil fuels (perhaps a century into the future, maybe even less), then the inconveniences will keep coming...
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