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But if you're not feeling your current effects until 1,000 years in the future you may be completely screwed before you end up doing something about it.

• Nutmog 11y ago
  Why would it happening later be more trouble? At best we'd see it coming and have 1000 years to prepare. At worst it'd happen just as suddenly as people already expect it to. In either case, we'll probably have better technology to manage it in 1000 years than we do today.
  • sbov 11y ago
    At worst we wouldn't do anything for 1,000 years because there's been little effect. In the meantime we've built up another 1,000 years we're going to have to deal with, which might be impossible at that point. In comparison, if we instantly felt the effects we could obviously see we're causing specific problems, and react appropriately. With the lag it's a crapshoot and deniability can creep in.