Catastrophic habitat loss has a profound effect on human culture. 

Apes and the Anthropocene Extinction

Description of global change and its causes

The Anthropocene extinction: Habitat destruction, climate change, pollution and synergistic effects between all of these have already enormously reduced great ape ranges worldwide, and the impacts are predicted to worsen for all great ape species over time \cite{Carvalho_2021} . While in the 20th century land use change was the largest driver of great ape extinction, by 2070 climate change is predicted to become the largest driver of extinction in great ape populations, due to existing habitat fragmentation, and poor thermoregulation limiting dispersal abilities \cite{Junker_2012}.
Current climate pledges would limit warming 2.7C degrees of ,and current emissions map best onto the "business as usual" RCP (source).

How global change directly impacts great apes

Range sizes

Great apes are particularly vulnerable to Anthropogenic threats due to their slow life history, long inter-birth intervals, and low population densities \cite{Purvis2000}.
All species of great ape are endangered or critically endangered. 
Under current emissions, Carvlho et al. predict a 94 percent loss of great ape habitat in Africa by 2050. Even under RCP 2.6, a 85% decrease in great ape range sizes is predicted in just 3 decades time.
West African droughts predicted to increase
Climate change is predicted to be 
Predicted impacts of climate change on great apes are numerous to expand upon here, . 
Climate change, of course does not just affect wild animals. Climate change has dramatic impact on water availability, soil viability, phenological mismatch and - all of which causes human mass migration, increases illegal logging, hunting and  - as the century goes on humanity itself will become synergistic stressor to the all of the factors affected range size in great apes.
This in combination with other global warming factors makes the rate of destruction increase  \cite{Carvalho_2021}
More great apes in a smaller area, resource scarcity, mate scarcity
-> Ever increasings droughts, typhoons, heat waves

Resource availability

Culture & the climate crisis

How have long term catastrophic events shaped human cultures previously?

What are the predicted impacts of climate change on human culture?

From currently available data, can we predict what impact wide scale habitat destruction and increasing catastrophic climatic events will have on non-human great ape culture?