The weekly reading at the Mauna Loa CO2 observatory for June 16, 2019 breaks into 50 worst increases

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3. It's not optimism, it's despair. Science fiction is rife with stories about civilizations...

so smart they killed themselves off because they overlooked on small thing. Remember "Monsters from the id"? Not quite as startling as "It's a cookbook" but more significant and really should be part of the lexicon.

OK, fiction is fiction after all, but good fiction is a drama based on present facts, and should affect us as a very possible outcome if we make certain choices.

Our short stay on this planet may not destroy the planet itself, but it may destroy us. Or leave us to start pretty much from scratch-- without learning from the experience. Plenty of scifi about times after major apocalypses.