The AI calamity that will kill off humanity (or at least our current way of life) is the massively increased output of greenhouse gases on account of the huge AI datacenter power usage, mostly fueled by fossil fuel generators.

This will speed up climate change and the mass extinction event already occuring. For lots of living species on this planet it is already too late. And instead of doing everything in our power to counter that, we are actively piling on top of the causes for it. All for nothing but greed.

https://abcnews.com/International/venice-canals-clear-fish-coronavirus-halts-tourism-city/story?id=69662690

There's a lot of evidence that the earth could recover from some of what we've wrought pretty quickly. It seems like no help is coming, but maybe there are a lot of us out here who have been forced to wake up to the notion that ecoterrorism is the best course of action.

Remember how quickly rivers cleaned up during Covid? Some things would get fixed basically overnight. Deforestation would take a year to resolve the worse of it, a couple of centuries to really get back to pre-agricultural times.

depends on what you mean by "heal."

nature can bounce back surprisingly quickly. we saw that during the lockdowns. it's a thing that gives me hope.

but also, so much irreversible damage has already been done; we're in a mass extinction, after all. it will be millions of years before we have a similar level of biodiversity as we did before humans took over the planet.

Eons.