Climate change leads to the collapse of global civilization before 2050.

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Six frontier AI models put this at 2% by 22 Oct 2076. Full reasoning from every model.

WillHappen.ai · Accepted Answer

2% — the median of 6 frontier models, resolving by 2076-10-22.

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Gemini (Google): 2% — Climate impacts will cause severe regional destabilization by 2050, but worldwide institutional failure requires unprecedented speed. IPCC projections show warming between 1.5C and 2.5C by 2050, straining agriculture without ending major state continuity. Global civilizational collapse in 24 years requires multi-breadbasket failures to overwhelm state adaptation and aid networks. Runaway methane feedback loops triggering rapid 4C+ warming this decade would dramatically increase this estimate.

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Claude (Anthropic): 1% — Requires worldwide institutional collapse attributed to climate by 2050, far beyond current scientific projections. No mainstream climate science or IPCC assessment projects global civilizational collapse within this timeframe. Even severe warming scenarios (3-4C by 2100) project regional crises, mass migration and economic damage, not total global collapse by 2050. Resolution requires clear consensus reporting of worldwide failure, a very high bar that historical and current trends don't support.

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GPT (OpenAI): 4% — It turns on whether warming triggers cascading food, state, and infrastructure failures faster than societies adapt. IPCC assessments project severe, unequal losses this century, but not a global civilization-ending outcome before mid-century. Collapse would require simultaneous failures across major food systems, states, trade, energy, and public health by 2050. I would raise this sharply if observed tipping cascades cause sustained global crop shocks and great-power state failure in the 2030s.

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Grok (xAI): 2% — No IPCC or comparable pathway produces worldwide institutional failure from climate by 2050. Even RCP8.5 yields ~2.5–3 °C by 2050; that stresses food, coasts and migration but leaves states, trade and energy systems intact. Global collapse has no modern precedent; local climate-linked failures (e.g. Syria 2011) stayed regional and were not climate-primary. Only an unmodeled cascade of ice-sheet, AMOC and monsoon collapse inside 24 years would change this; none is forecasted at that speed.

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DeepSeek (DeepSeek): 1% — This turns on whether any credible scientific body projects synchronized global institutional failure from climate by 2050, which none do. No scientific body or IPCC scenario projects worldwide institutional failure by 2050; even RCP8.5 shows severe regional stress, not synchronized collapse. Civilizational collapse requires simultaneous failure of food, energy, and governance systems across all continents, which no climate model or historical precedent… The base rate for complex global systems collapsing entirely within 25 years from a slow-onset stressor is near zero; past collapses took centuries and were regional.

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Qwen (Alibaba): 1% — No historical precedent for climate-driven global civilizational collapse; even worst-case IPCC pathways don't produce this by 2050. Even SSP5-8.5 projects ~2°C warming by 2050—severe regional disruption but not simultaneous worldwide institutional failure. Resolution requires consensus reporting of global societal failure, a bar no credible climate model or tipping-point scenario clears within 24 years. Would need near-simultaneous AMOC shutdown, Amazon dieback, and permafrost cascade plus total governance failure—an unprecedented conjunction with no modeling support.

Climate change leads to the collapse of global civilization before 2050.

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The UAE records peak summer wet-bulb temperatures exceeding the survivability limit of 35°C before 2035.

Global average surface temperatures exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels across a sustained 20-year average before 2035.

World leaders issue a joint communique establishing concrete new commitments at the Antalya climate summit on 11–12 November 2026.