For this reason, it doesn’t seem likely that things like global warming or resource scarcity pose existential risk.
In so far as unstable societies make for dealing with existential risk much more difficult this contributes to existential risk. There’s been some discussion also of whether in general rebuilding is possible given how much we’ve consumed in easily accessible, non-renewable resources in order to bootstrap our way to our current tech level. CarlShulman and I discussed this here a while ago, with Carl arguing that it wasn’t much of an issue.
In so far as unstable societies make for dealing with existential risk much more difficult this contributes to existential risk. There’s been some discussion also of whether in general rebuilding is possible given how much we’ve consumed in easily accessible, non-renewable resources in order to bootstrap our way to our current tech level. CarlShulman and I discussed this here a while ago, with Carl arguing that it wasn’t much of an issue.