Even assuming that a suitable planet is found in a time frame that matters, and the required space travel technology is developed in a time frame that matters... how many thousands of people would we be able to send in the Colonizing ships?
That might save Humanity-the-species... Humanity-the-Actual-population would remain just as screwed anyways...
I'm far from being literate in climate science, but my understanding is that climate change wouldn't completely change civilization. I understand climate change as a shift in the parts of the earth that are inhabitable due to rising sea levels, wilder weather events, etc.
Another planet mightn't help with antibiotic resistance. We'll be taking the same bacteria with us wherever we go.
The reference to antibiotic resistance was dark humour of a sort, but clearly poorly executed. I was simply noting that if all the people are dead then we will emit far less CO2.
See http://motherboard.vice.com/read/if-we-release-a-small-fract...
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