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I can't imagine anything most countries could reasonably do to prepare for 5c, what type of things would you suggest?

eloff 5y ago
If you're Bangladesh, give up on being a country and join India so your people at least have somewhere to migrate to. If you're New Orleans, time to give up on being a city. Start preventing new construction. Incentivize people to leave. Things like that really if we're going to get honest with ourselves about where things are headed.
- kbelder 5y ago
  If you're Canada, get ready for good times.
  - eloff 5y ago
    Minus forest fires and other extreme weather events. Tough to say it will be positive, but more so than for other countries, apart from Russia.
parkingrift 5y ago
Blast sulfur into the stratosphere. No, I’m not joking.
- jessaustin 5y ago
  Our society no longer seeks practical solutions.
  - parkingrift 5y ago
    I feel pretty confident we'll get to the level of desperation needed to act on this comically cheap and effective stop-gap.
    - jessaustin 5y ago
      I'm not so sure. People who run the world DGAF about Kiribati or whatever. Rather, they really like mysterious and complicated schemes for transferring resources to themselves. E.g., all of USA's stupid wars. Also e.g. delayed availability in USA of covid antigen testing. Or also e.g., "carbon capture". "Every crisis is an opportunity." Just look at the BS they excrete whenever they're forced to address albedo modification at all. [0] "Albedo modification is cheaper and actually possible, but if we do it rather than this much more expensive and totally ineffective thing then we'll have to keep doing it until we can figure out how to emit less carbon, which will never happen so just give us all the money while the world cooks." I'm paraphrasing but that's just because they don't want to publish anything so explicitly embarrassing to humanity. [0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150210-national-academy-geoengineering-report-climate-change-environment https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150210-na...

If you're Bangladesh, give up on being a country and join India so your people at least have somewhere to migrate to. If you're New Orleans, time to give up on being a city. Start preventing new construction. Incentivize people to leave. Things like that really if we're going to get honest with ourselves about where things are headed.

kbelder 5y ago
If you're Canada, get ready for good times.
- eloff 5y ago
  Minus forest fires and other extreme weather events. Tough to say it will be positive, but more so than for other countries, apart from Russia.

parkingrift 5y ago

Blast sulfur into the stratosphere. No, I’m not joking.

jessaustin 5y ago
Our society no longer seeks practical solutions.
- parkingrift 5y ago
  I feel pretty confident we'll get to the level of desperation needed to act on this comically cheap and effective stop-gap.
  - jessaustin 5y ago
    I'm not so sure. People who run the world DGAF about Kiribati or whatever. Rather, they really like mysterious and complicated schemes for transferring resources to themselves. E.g., all of USA's stupid wars. Also e.g. delayed availability in USA of covid antigen testing. Or also e.g., "carbon capture". "Every crisis is an opportunity." Just look at the BS they excrete whenever they're forced to address albedo modification at all. [0] "Albedo modification is cheaper and actually possible, but if we do it rather than this much more expensive and totally ineffective thing then we'll have to keep doing it until we can figure out how to emit less carbon, which will never happen so just give us all the money while the world cooks." I'm paraphrasing but that's just because they don't want to publish anything so explicitly embarrassing to humanity. [0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150210-national-academy-geoengineering-report-climate-change-environment https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/150210-na...