Appealing to complexity doesn’t make basics like conservation of matter go away. The Climate is extremely complex, and will not be entirely understood in our l

Appealing to complexity doesn’t make basics like conservation of matter go away. The Climate is extremely complex, and will not be entirely understood in our lifetimes; but I’m not interested in litigating my way to a perfect climate model. I’ll leave that to climatologists or whatever. I’ll state my policy position (the end result of whatever one’s understanding of the problem is anyway) and leave it at that: My position is that mankind ought to follow what I was taught in scouts: “leave no trace”. Return GHGs to preindustrial levels, control all other pollutants in a similarly strict sense. Work towards solving the problems we have with deforestation and destruction of habitats, etc. All while maintaining freedom of reproduction for everyone, and continuing to improve quality of life for humans everywhere. Not exactly an easy feat. That world (the preindustrial world) changed according to its own whims and patterns, but it was beautiful and humans thrived in it. Knowing that a much warmer planet would look different and likely be less hospitable makes me want to avoid that outcome; however I’ve made my peace with the high likelihood that I wont see “garden earth”. We’re working with a system we don’t understand against a timetable we can’t see while people make money every time they slow us down.