Casual Conversation

Why care about it? Have fun! Enjoy life while you can, you won't last long enough to see the worst to come.

Don't have kids.

I don't care about the end of the world anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth

The luminosity of the Sun will steadily increase, causing a rise in the solar radiation reaching Earth and resulting in a higher rate of weathering of silicate minerals. This will affect the carbonate–silicate cycle, which will reduce the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. About 600 million years from now, the level of carbon dioxide will fall below the level needed to sustain C3 carbon fixation photosynthesis used by trees. Some plants use the C4 carbon fixation method to persist at carbon dioxide concentrations as low as ten parts per million. However, in the long term, plants will likely die off altogether. The extinction of plants would cause the demise of almost all animal life since plants are the base of much of the animal food chain.[12][13]

In about one billion years, solar luminosity will be 10% higher, causing the atmosphere to become a "moist greenhouse", resulting in a runaway evaporation of the oceans. As a likely consequence, plate tectonics and the entire carbon cycle will end.[14] Then, in about 2–3 billion years, the planet's magnetic dynamo may cease, causing the magnetosphere to decay, leading to an accelerated loss of volatiles from the outer atmosphere. Four billion years from now, the increase in Earth's surface temperature will cause a runaway greenhouse effect, creating conditions more extreme than present-day Venus and heating Earth's surface enough to melt it. By that point, all life on Earth will be extinct.[15][16] Finally, the planet will likely be absorbed by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded beyond the planet's current orbit.[17]

I dunno, seems like wishful thinking. Between AC, generators, mansions, bunkers, personal doctors, and being able to fuck off to safer parts of the world in a private jet on the slightest whim I don't think consequences will be suffered for them.

Maybe they get heat stroke while on some psychedelic retreat. More likely they just do stuff like that less often or do something else, and I sorta feel like the next headline will be some rich person mauled by their exotic pet instead. I guess they could also do something stupid with wilderness guides, too (I can already imagine the argument/prophetic-warning video posted online). Some sort of hubris. Maybe something involving their own product/service, like a rocket.

Or it may even be something more mundane than that, like choking on food with a) nobody around to help b) help not offered, or pushed away out of pride.

Even if consequences could be had normally, it'd likely be experienced by their kids or grand-kids instead (even more likely if they somehow don't turn out to be such terrible people).

Also, my first thought:

It’s been happening for a long time, probably won’t end during our lifetimes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction