About Us

The not-for-profit Job One for Humanity organization provides a unique "big picture" view of the many interconnected and interdependent climate system factors behind the global warming emergency. Unlike other climate change educational organizations, we do provide critical-path, prioritized solutions based upon the REAL global fossil fuel reduction targets and the global warming tipping point deadlines we currently face. 

Our website focuses on educating individuals and businesses about surviving and thriving through the future climate change challenges. We also integrate the complex "big picture" math and physics-driven interactions of the climate's many sub-systems into easy-to-understand illustrations, descriptions, and documentation. 

As you will soon discover, you have found a very special climate change educational website.

Introduction 

This article has been read well over 2 million times. It covers the 30 + direct and indirect benefits that we will receive from the process of managing climate change, global warming, and our 11 other major global crises one way or another. 

It was designed to help provide additional emotional support to the hundreds of millions of people worldwide who feel any of the following:

climate grief,

climate worry,

climate sadness,

climate anger,

climate anxiety,

climate fear,

climate depression,

climate defeat,

climate doom,

climate collapse,

climate extinction,

climate resignation, or even climate apathy about our seemingly out-of-control global warming emergency.

This page and website are also designed to help those who are experiencing environmental grief, environmental worry, environmental anger, environmental anxiety, environmental sadness, environmental fear, environmental depression, environmental defeat, environmental collapse, environmental extinction, environmental doom, environmental resignation, or even environmental apathy about our many other major global environmental crises. 

Until one processes any of the above climate or environmental emotions in a healthy way, one may continue to feel diminished or upset by them. to hell you do this we have provided the following page for perspective and this critical additional page to proven techniques for processing the above emotions. 

The Great Global Rebirth and The Great Global Collapse

We are now in what many are calling a Great Global Collapse process for good reason. It is being triggered by accelerating global warming-related consequences and those consequences interacting with and worsening our 11 other global crises. 

The good news is that this Great Global Collapse process will eventually offer equal to (or even greater than) longer-term benefits. Moreover, these collective benefits hold the hope of becoming well beyond the soon-arriving and unavoidable global suffering, losses, and death. 

One could also call the following collection of global warming-related benefits the beginning of a possible Great Global Rebirth. One could even see the following benefits as a basic framework for creating this Great Global Rebirth.

The following benefit materials are vital to your survival because:

a. They can help you create a more balanced and healthier perspective concerning any sad, angry, or other negative feelings you might have about the conditions of climate change or our global warming emergency. 

b. They contain all of the great things that will happen as we work together toward achieving our new future and the Great Global Rebirth without the threats and consequences of accelerating climate change and global warming looming over our heads. 

c. They even contain the dark benefits and "silver linings" of the climate change and global warming emergency, which could occur or that natural forces (math and physics) will bring about by themselves --- if we fail to manage this emergency successfully! And,

d. They contain links to a practical and honest comprehensive plan for managing the climate change and global warming threat. (At the end of this article, you will find a link to a comprehensive four-part plan.) 

We have discovered that regular review of these global warming benefits was critical to keeping our Job One staff and volunteers from worrying too much about how bad things currently are. These materials have successfully kept our team maintaining their motivation and staying on our difficult global warming educational mission for over the last 13 years. 

(We have bolded the many benefits below so you can review them quickly.)

The benefits we will experience while working toward The Great Global Rebirth or by achieving the critical 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets:

Benefit 1 - Having a beautiful world and having any livable future that we get --- if we make the right choices fossil fuel reduction choices.

Imagine a world with clean, fresh air that did not kill us or make our children ill. Imagine a world of new livelihoods and lifestyles where former fossil fuel workers transform our transportation system. Imagine them building fast, green bullet trains and expanding universal access to self-driving electric vehicles eliminating the need for most private transportation and parking lots.

Now imagine existing parking lots and the roofs of our many buildings becoming organic gardens or parks or, solar panel farms. Imagine our cities transformed into safe and healthy places and healthy forests, soils, waterways, and oceans again helping to clean our air and water and feed us sustainably.

Imagine we make the right 2025 global fossil fuel reduction target choices, and in doing this, we also become good stewards of the world and our futures.

 

And finally, imagine that we have preserved the hope for both ourselves and for future generations that life will go on and that the quality of our lives will get better. By acting responsibly now we get to experience and preserve for ourselves and future generations the opportunity to survive and thrive and experience a sustainable prosperity.

To see this super-benefit in another critical way, know that when we solve the climate change emergency, we will not have to live through the painful road of escalating economic, political, and social chaos and collapse. In addition, we will not have to watch humanity's final members pass away with much of the Earth's other biological life. (For more on this process of collapse and extinction, see this critical page.)

Benefit 2  - When we fix global warming we also help fix many of the world's other major critical challenges.

When we work together to resolve the single greatest disruptor and threat multiplier and threat amplifier of the 21st century (climate change and accelerating global warming,) we will be simultaneously reducing many of the negative consequences of the world's environmental and other most critical systemic challenges. 

Here is a brief listing of some of these other critical global challenges that will improve as we get global warming under control:

general environmental degradation, (Fixing the global warming emergency will force us all to live more sustainable lives and livelihoods.)

the loss of animal and plant biodiversity (This is because of global temperature rise and other global warming pollutants.)

resource depletion, to resolve global warming, we will be forced to live far more sustainable lives and livelihoods. This new sustainability will lead to a wiser and reduced use of non-renewal and renewable resources. 

the escalating pollution of our air (with carbon methane, and other greenhouse gases.)

the escalating pollution of our lands (with acid rain and other pollutants.)

the escalating pollution of our seas and waters (by overheating them and from the carbon fallout turning our waters more carbonic making it more difficult for many animals of the seas to survive.)

rising mass migrations (growing climate change-driven mass migrations of desperate climagees harm multiple environments and animal populations.)

escalating conflicts, war, and terrorism (with rising mass migrations and resource depletion because global warming is destroying crops, water, and so many other human and animal resources, there will be more conflicts.)

increasing global economic instabilities (all of the above will cause far more global economic instability.)
new COVID-19 like pandemics and other new or old epidemics will likely occur every decade. (This is because of the stresses put on the world's health systems and all of the previous issues.)

increasing political instability and collapsing governments (This is because of all of the earlier issues.)

growing economic inequality, social and racial injustice, hunger, and poverty (with failing governments and rising conflicts, the resolution of economic inequality, social and racial injustice, hunger, and poverty will suffer.)

our failure to evolve effective global governance, (Solving the global emergency of global warming will require us to evolve more effective global governance.)

overpopulation, to be able to live the sustainable lives and livelihoods that we must eventually live to get global warming under control, we will also have to collectively realize that our current population of about 8 billion far exceeds the carrying capacity of the Earth (about 1 1/2 to 2 billion people.) At that point of collective insight, we will install global incentives and policies to get Earth back to a sustainable population level without overshoot. On the other hand, suppose we fail to self-regulate human reproduction and the accelerating global warming emergency. In that case, nature will reduce the population for us through the process of global collapse. (To see what an overpopulation global warming-driven global collapse process would look like, click here.)

As we resolve global warming, we will also be making most of the world's critical global challenges (above) far, far easier to resolve! Additionally, most of our best social, economic, and political values, goals, and human rights will also become far easier and more probable to achieve once we get our accelerating global warming emergency resolved. (Those values, goals, and human rights are shown in the Sustainable Development illustration below)

We can build a new world of far greater peace and security in the world by fixing global warming! 

 

 

Said in a slightly different way, here are just a few of the potential evolutionary changes in values, goals, and processes that will be far easier to improve or make once accelerating global warming is under control. We will be better able to:

a. end racial and educational justice, 

b. create universal healthcare, 

c. end wealth and income equity, 

d. create housing and employment equity,

e. reduce our destructive consume/pollute/waste consumerism, 

f. end critical resource depletion and create resource rebalancing, 

g. allow for the return and strengthening of biodiversity because of reduced pollution and encroachment into natural habitats, 

h. create the next evolutionary economic fair exchange system beyond our current corporate greed-based capitalism. This new economic system will not rely upon the false fundamental principle of unlimited growth within the closed and limited Earth system. And,

i. create effective global governance based on the collective wellbeing of all planetary citizens vs. our current corporatocracy for the benefit of a wealthy few that we have now. (To begin to repair corporatocracy we would need to remove all personhood rights from corporations, hold them strictly responsible to the principles of the triple bottom line and make them pay for all pollution and harm they have caused exporting their waste and pollution upon the public commons.) 

All of the previous items will help build a sustainable prosperity and a just and equitable future for ALL of humanity, including all of the biological life which also sustains us. All of the above things can help create a global civil society with individual human rights and responsibilities held in appropriate balance with community and government rights and responsibilities. (To learn more about the many new principles of the sustainable prosperity of the future, click here.)

Before reading on, please take a moment and visualize how much better your life and our world will be when all of the beautiful values and goals listed below are improved and achieved! (To see the expanded details on the 12 other critical global challenges we must face and resolve to have a future, click here.)  

Resolving global warming will allow us to make continuing progress on addressing all of the world's other critical systemic challenges! On the other hand, if we do not get global warming emergency resolved, and the climate continues to de-stabilize at the current rate, there will be no practical way to fix the other global challenges or to make continued progress on or ever realize most of the above Sustainable Prosperity and Development values, goals, and human rights. (To see a detailed and expanded description of each of humanity's other critical global challenges to better understand how important it is for us to manage our global warming emergency, click here.) 

Please note that even if we fail to manage global warming and endure an international collapse process (as described here), we can still achieve the many benefits in Benefit 3 above. This success is possible because almost all institutions, organizations, and governments supporting the policies that either block or that make the above benefits impossible to achieve will have themselves collapsed! Thus, for the young survivors who have learned the lessons from this great global trauma there will be fresh, cleared "ground to build anew." On this cleared ground the Great Global Rebirth can take place. The survivors can build new more sustainable systems and structures from the ground up that will finally resolve almost all 12 of the current global crises.

Benefit 3 - In resolving this emergency, we will be forced to pilot new and more effective models of global governance. In fact, we will have to evolve some effective form of global governance with legislative, executive, and judicial powers or we will not be able to solve global warming in time.

Benefit 4 - By being forced toward a sustainable future to survive, we create hundreds of millions of new, well-paid green energy generation and transition jobs. 

Benefit 5 - Resolving the global warming emergency while the world's other critical systemic challenges are also getting worse will be extremely difficult. Working through the challenges of this evolutionary adventure will be equally or even more rewarding, not only in having a safer and healthier world but also in increasing the overall meaning and purpose we bring to our lives.

Benefit 6 - We still have time to get prepared and adapt, and to build global warming emergency reserves and resilience into our local and international preparedness systems. Click here for how to do this.

Benefit 7 - There will be positive climate wildcards that will benefit some parts of the world, at least temporarily. Some of those wildcards might also be in the form of new technologies that could help us dramatically reduce fossil fuel usage and radically increase green energy generation and consumption to slow down global warming.

Benefit 8 - Ongoing scientific research is now more effectively warning more individuals about the great global warming challenge and extinction emergency before us. 

Benefit 9 - Our accelerating global warming will inevitably force us into new levels of local, national, and international climate cooperation.

Benefit 10  - Without a doubt, accelerating global warming is the single greatest collective adaptive challenge and evolutionary adventure in human history. As the single greatest "exterior" global threat and disruptor humanity has ever faced, it will eventually and literally force us to transform and grow in global cooperation, evolutionary maturity, and as one human family.

Seen from this transformational perspective, our global warming emergency may also become the greatest opportunity in human history for intentional, well-reasoned social, economic, and political evolutionary growth. If humanity wants to survive this emergency, it will force humanity to live far more sustainable lifestyles and livelihoods. 

Benefit 11 - We are intelligent and adaptive beings and we are able to resolve or adapt to almost anything. As we fully engage with ending the global warming emergency and the climate re-stabilization process (using the Job One for Humanity Plan), we will also be continuing to advance the natural foundation for long-term Sustainable Prosperity for everyone.

Benefit 12 - Despite the escalating threats before us, we can still fully enjoy our normal daily lives for quite a while longer (depending on our current location,) as we work together to resolve the many challenges of the rapidly escalating global warming emergency.

Benefit 13 - We do not have to "polarize to mobilize" because ultimately, we are all in the same boat when it comes to the global warming emergency and the other global challenges we now all now face. We can only do this together!

Benefit 14 - We can trust 13.8 billion years of evolutionary progress, success, and momentum to help get us through this emergency and adaptive challenge.

Benefit 15  - it is your privilege, honor, and responsibility should you choose to accept it, to be a part of the forward-thinking team and movement to help prepare and adapt as well as to save and salvage whatever we can, while we are also doing every we can to slow down the ongoing and near-unavoidable mass extinction event, while at the same time we work tirelessly toward preventing a total extinction event. It is hard to imagine a more meaningful, exciting, and wise way to protect yourself, your family, and future generations while living out as comfortably as possible whatever years you may have left.

Benefit 16 - Although it will take centuries or thousands of years, once we do stop adding new carbon and methane pollution to our atmosphere each year, we can eventually establish a new and stable global average temperature and climate. 

Benefit 17 - If we start immediately, and we can work together using an effective, prioritized plan like the one we have created called the Job One for Humanity Plan, many of us will still survive and thrive the many now unavoidable global warming consequences. In order to create the best possible outcomes for ourselves and those we love, we are still able to squarely face this emergency and prepare for and adapt to it. (Click here for how to get started on the just upgraded Job One Plan to protect you and your loved ones, and start making the best of our difficult global warming emergency!)

Benefit 18 - The currently excessive power of global corporations will have to come back into balance. Corporations like the fossil fuel industry currently wield too much control over our politicians over the interests of our collective wellbeing. We can not solve the global warming emergency unless we begin acting for the public well-being and reducing the influence and lobbying powers of the corporations over our governments. Addressing and fixing the global warming sub-step will also help do much to help resolve the world's other critical systemic global challenges.

Benefit 19 - Evolution teaches through pain, loss, stress, and discomfort. Modern society has become obsessed with convenience, comfort, consumption, and waste. The world is now moving in the wrong direction when you view the global systemic challenges it now faces.

The mess we have put ourselves in with global warming and the other global challenges is going to cause us a lot of now unavoidable pain, loss, stress, and discomfort until we adapt and make the needed changes. If we do not adapt, we will die off as a species. We will adapt because "almost all people change when the pain going forward is less than the pain of staying where they are." 

Benefit 20 - There are unique spiritual, purpose, meaning, and character-building benefits for individuals and faith communities in dealing with this global warming emergency and forwarding the climate re-stabilization and a global ecological, economic, and political re-balancing process. The fact that with accelerating global warming we are truly facing mass to total extinction within our lifetimes will likely serve as a catalyst to bring many individuals closer to the Great Mystery and origin of life.

Benefit 21 - Because we cannot eliminate all of the coming pain, suffering, and death due to global warming's many unavoidable consequences, we can at least still work together and build more and better relationships to effectively slow and MINIMIZE them. This will allow us to save and salvage as much as we can so that more us survive longer and better.

Benefit 22 - We now face herculean challenges and unavoidable chains of catastrophes from the global warming emergency as well as the world's 11 other critical systemic challenges. The global warming emergency will cause many individuals to re-examine their lives, lifestyles, and livelihoods. These chains of catastrophes will be powerful catalysts for change that may not have occurred if we were not so challenged! 

When deeply understood these catastrophes will create life-changing and life-empowering moments of metanoia (in most of its wonderful meanings here,) and catharsis. These catastrophes will help us and even force us to embrace new values and behaviors and take the new paths needed to ensure a better future for all. 

Benefit 23 - Those of us who do survive and thrive through this emergency will likely do so in part by creating new eco-communities and more sustainable towns and cities. These new eco-communities and towns and cities will be more in harmony with the natural world and become "beacons of light" and living examples that will demonstrate that some of us have learned how to live sustainably and as one human family. Hopefully, the new eco-communities will have evolved and be overseen by a cooperating and facilitating new global governance system working for the common benefit of ALL humankind, and not for just wealthy individuals or corporations or narrow national interests.

Benefit 24 - In some ways, from the broadest possible evolutionary perspective, the global warming emergency and our other 11 systemic global challenges can be seen through the lens of being just another period of evolutionary compression and regression. Despite our great technological advances, this social, economic, and political compression caused by many new stressful challenges and what looks like a collective human maturity period of retrogression is a natural reoccurring part of our evolution where evolution seeks to reach higher levels of unity and cooperation. (For More on this evolutionary compression and regression issue click here as well as for more and expanded positive perspectives on our current emergency and global challenges.) 

Benefit 25 - As global warming accelerates many colder areas will get warmer and will be able to grow warmer climate crops that they could not grow previously.

Benefit 26 - The accelerating global warming emergency is a growing, real, and legitimate emotional issue! You have every right to be sad or angry for a while.

The global warming emergency is real because if we do not radically change our global fossil fuel burning ways to come very close to the challenging 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, we will face a global warming mass extinction event within the next 30-50 years. But, there is good news even here.

This is because even though it may no longer be possible to avoid a mass extinction event because we have done so little over the last 35 years to fix global warming and we have crossed key tipping points, we still have time left to reduce global fossil fuel use to get as close to the 2025 targets to avoid total extinction over the next 50-70 years (Getting very close to these 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets will take nothing less than the greatest government-directed mass mobilization of resources, personnel, and actions ever attempted in human history.)

Never forget that we still can create the world in which we and future generations will love to live. We can build a new world of far greater peace and security!

To do this, first we have to get the global warming emergency resolved.

Even if we fail to come close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets there are shocking "dark benefits" or "silver linings" which also could be a necessary framework for an eventual Great Global Rebirth

Suppose we do not manage the global warming emergency correctly. In that case, there is little doubt that the unstoppable forces of Mother Nature (the math and physics behind accelerating global warming) will fix the problem for us.

Unfortunately, mother Nature's solution will be far more painful and destructive to humanity. Below are the dark benefits if we do not come close to the 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets, fail to control global warming and the forces of Mother Nature have to do it for us.

Benefit 1  - Our failure to fix the global warming emergency will also help resolve all of these many of the issues within our other 11 critical global challenges. This benefit is crucial because our now unavoidable future global warming mass extinction event will reduce much of the human population by mid-century. This massive global die-off, once completed, will also dramatically reduce global starvation, income inequality, wealth disparity, housing shortages, healthcare shortages, racial inequality, pollution, educational inequality, employment opportunity inequality, most of our other current pollution, religious intolerance, and environmental issues. 

This significant improvement is because the infrastructure for 8 billion people will remain for the 1-2 billion survivors, (or even far less,) and there will be far less demand for natural and human-made resources. Additionally, because of the severe trauma of the great collapse, survivors will be less likely to allow the previous income, wealth, housing, healthcare, racial, educational, and employment inequalities and disparities. (Some predictions for the post-global warming collapse remaining population predict as few as 200-500 million survivors.)

 

 

 

Benefit 2 - The benefits of evolutionary destructive creation may become the most powerful force behind The Great Global Rebirth. Destructive creation is the evolutionary recycling of parts or wholes of a system or subsystem unable to adapt. This core meta-pattern of evolution for breaking down and recycling non-adaptive parts and wholes allows the resources of these parts and wholes to be reused to support future experiments in the evolutionary process. 

The tremendous "destructive creation" of the global warming extinction emergency (its resultant catastrophes, chaos, and consequences,) further disrupting and multiplying our 11 other critical global challenges, will eventually also cause the eventual structural collapse or destruction of most or all remaining resistant and non-adaptive economic, social, and political structures. These would be the very structures that were either causing or maintaining the global warming emergency and would not likely be removed by any other social or political means other than uncontrolled collapse. 

Once these change-resistant economic, social, and political structures have fallen, it will be far easier to envision and create something more sustainable and equitable for ALL survivors. (We call this the Great Global Rebirth.) Survivors will not likely repeat the past painful mistakes or keep using the same economic, social, and political systems that have so horribly failed them in creating the global warming extinction emergency, mass extinction, and widespread global collapse. 

By allowing the natural evolutionary processes of "destructive creation" to clear out harmful or non-adaptive social, economic, and political structures, the most significant extinction event and global collapse in human history can be transformed into humanity's greatest opportunity for a better and new future --- a rebirth. Survivors can utilize this unconscionable tragedy as the perfect opportunity to make the massive and needed changes for our intentional evolution.

For whoever survives, here are just a few of the potential evolutionary changes in values and processes that will be far easier to make once the highly-resistant existing social, economic, and political structures have failed or collapsed.

Here are the benefits of destructive creation by removing non-adaptive and change-resistant structures:

1. the reduction of our destructive consume/pollute/waste consumerism, 

2. the ending critical resource depletion and create resource rebalancing, 

3. we will be able to make any additionally needed reductions in global fossil fuels use and its massive carbon pollution of our air and water,

4. the ending racial and educational justice, 

5. we can create universal healthcare, 

6. ending wealth and income equity, 

7. we can build housing and employment equity, 

8. we will allow for the return and strengthening of biodiversity because of reduced pollution and our encroachment into natural habitats, 

9. we can create effective global governance based on all planetary citizens' collective wellbeing vs. our current corporatocracy, which operates for the benefit of a wealthy few that we have now. (To begin to repair corporatocracy, we would need to remove all personhood rights from corporations, hold them strictly responsible to the principles of the triple bottom line and make them pay for all pollution and harm they cause upon the public commons and wellbeing.) And finally, 

10. we can create the next evolutionary economic fair exchange system beyond our current corporate greed-based capitalism. This new economic system will not rely upon the false fundamental principle of unlimited growth within the closed and limited Earth system.

All of the previous items will help build a balanced and sustainable prosperity and a just and equitable future for ALL of humanity, including all biological life. All of the above things can help create a global civil society with individual human rights and responsibilities held in appropriate balance with community and government rights and responsibilities. (To learn more about the principles of the sustainable prosperity of the future, click here.)

If we have a future at all, in some form, it will likely be a "post-unlimited-growth, post-greed capitalist, and post-fossil fuel society world. If we are lucky, this future will arrive in part by:

a. a bit of proper management by ourselves,

b. by intentional design, and

c. in part by the pain and trauma of the horrendous mass extinction disasters and the great collapse. 

If you notice, these post-collapse aspiring values and processes are many of the same ones that we will need to work on to prevent global collapse and address the other 11 critical global challenges we now face. (To see what is meant by this, look again at the Sustainable Development Goals illustration above.)

"The global warming extinction collapse may be the greatest opportunity in human history (and the greatest opportunity in your life,) to re-build and rebirth a better world because most of the most powerful change-resisting societal structures and systems have been cleared away." Lawrence Wollersheim

Benefit 3 - There is also another possibility that will allow some of us to survive. If we do not successfully cut fossil fuel use to the life-critical 2025 global fossil fuel reduction targets and the COVID-19 pandemic or something else causes the world's economy to go into a severe and lasting recession or depression cutting fossil fuel use radically, Most of us will die. This mass die-off will occur in part due to soaring food prices, massive crop failures, mass starvation, and the many other consequences and chaos linked to and caused by rapidly soaring global warming temperatures. 

As billions die of starvation, or in migration and new resource wars, or because of the 20 worst consequences of global warming occurring, fossil fuel use will drop radically in what may be the dark last resort solution and "benefit" that saves some of humanity and civilization in the end. But even if this happens, it will still take centuries to thousands of years before the average global temperature and the planet recovers from what we have done to it. 

Survivors will be living a nightmare of high temperatures, extreme weather, and chains of horrible global warming-related consequences we can barely envision. (Please see this page on our out of control global warming, which explains this dark benefit in detail as well as more about the difficult and life-critical 2025 fossil global fuel use reduction targets.)

Benefits 4  - We will resolve the global overpopulation problem, the global resource depletion, and the resource overshoot problem. Much of the world's population will begin to perish if we miss the 2025 targets by mid-century. One way or the other, Mother Nature will do what we were unable or unwilling to do. Mother Nature by way of accelerating global warming will initiate The Great Global Collapse and Die-off and force us back to a planetary population level that the Earth's carrying capacity can sustainably support (about 1 and 1/2 to 2 billion). (Some researchers say that the true root physical cause of the global warming emergency is overpopulation and the resource overshoot caused by overpopulation.)

Benefit 5 - Even if we do not stop escalating global warming in time for most of humanity to survive, from a "Big Picture" evolutionary perspective, there are still many benefits for our remaining biological planetary life and the evolution of any surviving humanity and our universe. Other species will not have their habitat destroyed as it is happening now, and fewer species will go extinct because we are currently being such poor stewards of the earth. 

Benefit 6 - It may take thousands to hundreds of thousands of years, but nature will always somehow recover if we work together to prevent phase six of the Climageddon Scenario, which is our atmosphere being ripped off into outer space aka run-a-way global warming. Even if humanity goes completely extinct and we somehow prevent global warming's sixth and last Climageddon phase total extinction, aka run-a-way global warming, from occurring, nature and the unstoppable forces of evolution will eventually recover from the damage we are doing, and some new apex species will evolve to take our place. 

Who knows, it may even be our prodigy in the form of robotic artificial intelligence (AI) life forms. (See the Climageddon Scenario here for the 6 phases we go through before we reach run-a-way global warming and a detailed explanation of this complex last non-human benefit to other life forms on our planet.)

Benefit 7: - At this time, we can still hope that we will slow and lessen what is coming just enough so that some of humanity and civilization will survive in the global warming safer zones of the future. If we finally work together, instead of total extinction, we only experience an unavoidable mass extinction.