That is exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote my comment. The human race as an "evolutionary culdesac" is my favorite line from that bit.

I fully support PP, but this is a disturbing discussion to listen to and Dr. Nucatola is a fool for having engaged in it in public. Her use of euphemisms and clinical terminology to distance herself from the reality of what she is discussing even makes me angry. Certainly, this is a hack job, but she made herself the perfect dupe and is culpable for the damage that she has done her organization.

We need to reorient the discussion of climate change away from the idea that we're destroying the Earth, because we're not. The Earth and the natural world will survive humanity, it's humans that won't survive. We'll destroy ourselves as well as some portion of animal life, but we will just be a small blip in the timeline of billions of years. It will only require one hundred thousand years or so for all traces of human kind to disappear after we've destroyed ourselves, but the Earth will have hardly noticed our existence.