>>Will the world come up with a plan to actually curb carbon emissions as much as we need to? Remove carbon? >Not in time. Unless the plan involves some form o

>>Will the world come up with a plan to actually curb carbon emissions as much as we need to? Remove carbon? >Not in time. Unless the plan involves some form of genocide. But even genocide probably won't be fast enough without weapons of mass destruction. Well, we're on track to address that problem. Russia is stepping up their nuclear programs, America has a man with little self-discipline in charge of the final decision, India & Pakistan really dislike each other, Iran is ignoring the nuclear treaty, and I'm sure Israel has a few nukes to spare as well. On the upside, the following nuclear winter will mitigate some of the greenhouse effects for a while, so we've got that going for us. > The good news is this: under status quo we can probably expect to live reasonably well in our lifetimes. That will be until roughly 2050, when things will go somewhat pear-shaped. So if you're younger than, say, 35 right now? Ooops. Sorry. > I think humanity is slowly coming to an understanding that the planet really was a zero-sum game all along Alas, it also understand that after they're dead, things don't really matter to them. And so we're in a race to extract maximum value in our lifetimes. We're pretty much doomed.