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Letter: Evolution could avert a future natural disaster (2)

Published 18 October 2023

From Thomas Smith, Saint-Louis, France

Researcher Alexander Farnsworth anticipates that, due to natural processes, atmospheric carbon dioxide will reach levels incompatible with mammalian survival in a quarter of a billion years. He hopes that “we’d be a space-faring civilisation by that point”. But the technical challenges in managing atmospheric CO2 levels are trivial compared with those of human interplanetary flight.

Issue no. 3461 published 21 October 2023

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