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Define 'collapse'. The worst effects of climate change are a drop in precipitation, a shift in where the arable land is, a drop in total arable land, and water shortages. Rising sea levels aren't that big of an issue. That's bad, really bad, and if there's nothing that happens in the mean time to mitigate that (ie - someone invents soylent), then a lot of people will die. That'll have knock on effects with countries, stability, war & revolutions. But the idea of human civilization collapsing? Not likely. There's still a poo poo ton of fossil fuels, still waiting to be exploited, so that gives some more time for other energy sources to catch up. ITER is still being built. Push comes to shove, nuclear can still get a massive roll-out. Granted, what 'civilization' comes out the other end may not look like western liberal democracy circa the US in the late 1990s, but that sort of thing is impossible to really predict.
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