> All it does is to postpone the inevitable I don't want to repeat all of what I wrote below an older comment dismissing it for a similar reason, but a shorter

> All it does is to postpone the inevitable I don't want to repeat all of what I wrote below an older comment dismissing it for a similar reason, but a shorter version of <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40887461> is: >> Eventually, a new generation [that grew up with climate-saving adaptations like electric cars] replaces the old, but that will not be in time for global warming to remain under the identified likely tipping points. If we can make do with artificial cooling for two or three decades, that may be the crucial amount of time we need to deal with the overshoot. >> I don't know if we will need this [but we should] consider whether that temporary effect is useful