# Could "Global Warming" Actually Be Good For Mankind?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-global-warming-actually-be-good-for-mankind/212072>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 8, 2003, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-global-warming-actually-be-good-for-mankind/212072 "2003-11-08T14:39:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\
**Post date:** [November 11, 2003, 7:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-global-warming-actually-be-good-for-mankind/212072/41 "2003-11-11T07:54:53Z")

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> The planet Earth will survive… but we won’t.

How do you figure? Man has pretty much managed to conquer every habitat on Earth. Humans live in climates as varied as the frozen north to the burning deserts. What climate shift is gonna finally finish us off? Is the air going to turn into acid?

There’s no threat of man going extinct. The only threat is life becoming slightly more inconvenient.

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