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Becoming a common thing now, maybe people will finally believe something must be done, but it’s likely already too late.

• kzrdude 5y ago
  It's probably impossible to teach the broader public about the time scales involved in this. What we do now affects the world in decades to come (and more). And what we did for decades affects us now.
• alexose 5y ago
  It's not too late. There have been recent (huge!) advances in renewable energy, chemistry, and climate modeling that open the door to solving this problem. The path I see in front of us involves temporarily geoengineering our way to a +1C ceiling while massively scaling up carbon capture operations. At the same time, we transition as much industry to renewable energy as possible. This can be done. It's entirely within our grasp.
  • rootusrootus 5y ago
    > geoengineering And therein lies the rub. A big chunk of the population thinks climate change is a lie, or there isn't anything reasonable we can do about it, or it's too expensive to try and do something about it. And the opposing side will only accept massive reductions in quality-of-life to fix climate change and absolutely won't support geoengineering. Maybe the pragmatic middle is bigger than I think, and has the power to push the various wingnuts out into irrelevancy so we can get on with trying to innovate our way out of this mess like we always do.
    • ant6n 5y ago
      There's those who don't want to change their way of life and deny the problem, and those who don't want to change their way of life and claim some magical but impossible techno fix will solve the problem. Then there's those who realize that we won't solve the problem without some adjustment to the way we live.
      • rootusrootus 5y ago
        And the first two groups outnumber the last by 100 to 1.
• LatteLazy 5y ago
  Its not too late for geo engineering, or for local action like aircon, flood defences etc. That's the way forward now. For prevention the time is up.