"If we continue to fill the atmosphere with carbon dioxide. . .

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6. It's quite possible for us to destroy the environment, to the point where the cephalopods will not survive either

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In his final book, Novascene, James Lovelock, explained that because the Sun has warmed over the eons, the Earth is no longer in the “Habitable Zone”/“Goldilocks Zone.” It is only life (most notably green plants) that by maintaining a much lower level of atmospheric greenhouse gases than Venus and Mars keep the planet suitably cool.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atmospheric-Composition-mars-earth-venus.gif

He compares “Gaia” to an old woman, who no longer has the resilience to fight off life-threatening diseases like she once did. If we kill off all life, it will not reemerge. If we only kill off most life, it may never recover.