It’s not a linear process, it’s chaotic. I’ll attempt an analogy: We ended up in a Goldilocks state where this freezer emerged to keep things cool. The freezer

It’s not a linear process, it’s chaotic. I’ll attempt an analogy: We ended up in a Goldilocks state where this freezer emerged to keep things cool. The freezer is beginning to malfunction; it’s starting to melt. We discover it’s because we never cleaned the coils. So we clean the coils. But now we discover that the dirty coils led to the freezer overloading. So now the coils are clean but the freezer is still busted... There are ideas out there to clean the coils (carbon sequestration). But in terms of fixing the broken engine, we’re just kind of hoping it restarts itself once we put things back into a state of normal operating conditions. But it might not [depending on how long we wake to take action; we’re hopefully still in a stage where the coils just need cleaning]. Or at least not at a time scale that matters for humans and a huge chunk of the world’s biome.