Climate change won’t increase animal suffering---it’s inevitable even without humans
Michael Dickens 15, BS in Mathematical and Computational Sciences from Stanford University, Software Engineer at Affirm, “Is Preventing Human Extinction Good?”, Philosophical Multicore, https://mdickens.me/2015/08/15/is_preventing_human_extinction_good/
Arguments on Why Preventing Human Extinction May Be Good or Bad
Bad: Humans make wild animal suffering worse on earth
This scenario doesn’t require making any extreme predictions about the future, but it’s not clear that wild animal suffering (WAS) will be worse with humans than without. If humans go extinct then wild animals will almost certainly continue to suffer in the way they have been for hundreds of millions of years. It’s not conclusive that wild animals’ lives are net negative on balance, but it’s sufficiently likely that this is a major concern.
It’s conceivable that climate change could worsen wild animal suffering; this seems like the most plausible reason why humans might increase WAS if they stay on earth and don’t make any substantial technological advances. But it’s highly uncertain whether climate change will make things better or worse, and either way, humans will probably prevent climate change from going too far.