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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. Th
by 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 agoThere'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 agoAnd the first two groups outnumber the last by 100 to 1.