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> Their research, published today in Science, warns that failing to reduce fossil fuel emissions will set Earth’s oceans on track for a mass extinction within t
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 5y ago
> Their research, published today in Science, warns that failing to reduce fossil fuel emissions will set Earth’s oceans on track for a mass extinction within the next 300 years.
Within the next 300 years, we hopefully will be able to terraform Mars. We should also have technology to be able to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. We may also be at the point where we can build and deploy massive solar shields in space. Trying to predict catastrophe 300 years in the future is very naive.
- chiggsy 5y agoTerraform Mars? Space shields? Poppycock! How long to terraform a planet? Our first one? You don't think we'd retreat to virtual worlds instead? Or fight the fight we all want to fight, lose 80% of the population which would solve our problems just as well? What makes you think we can live on Mars anyway? I'm absolutely sure random microbes we carry can live on Mars, after a lil naked solar radiation, keep our population down, although we'll probably handle that ourselves. We don't even know how long we can travel in space outside of our interpenetrating biome, under the naked solar wind. Unless you mean the AI's which we might build?