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It's not rhetoric. We're seeing the effects of global warming unfold faster than we predicted 10 years ago. Everyone thought that we had until 2050 or 2060 ba
by binarymax 5y ago
It's not rhetoric. We're seeing the effects of global warming unfold faster than we predicted 10 years ago. Everyone thought that we had until 2050 or 2060 back then but it's becoming painfully obvious that it's simply not quick enough.
- rjknight 5y agoRealistically, some kind of geoengineering will be required. Given the existence of feedback loops, the sooner we deploy technology to directly reduce the temperature, the less of that technology we will have to deploy, but it seems inevitable that we will have to do something like this.
- binarymax 5y agoI've hit the thread depth limit and cant reply to you @rjknight - but a technological miracle isn't something we should bet on. This is more of a social and economic problem, not a technical problem. We have the technology to be carbon negative if we all work together - but we don't want to give up our comforts.
- blooalien 5y agoWhat's sad about that is that by worrying so much about "our comforts" we're guaranteeing that soon enough nobody excepting the filthy rich who caused much of the problem in the first place (and are still causing it) will have any comforts at all.
- reedjosh 5y ago> We're seeing the effects of global warming unfold faster than we predicted 10 years ago. Can you please point me to some examples?