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No. If things get really bad, pretty much everyone will want to fix them. And as far as temperatures go, it's not even that expensive to fix - block/reflect som
by bufferoverflow 2y ago
No. If things get really bad, pretty much everyone will want to fix them. And as far as temperatures go, it's not even that expensive to fix - block/reflect some of the sun at scale. Cover some deserts in cheap mirror material is probably the cheapest way to do this. USA alone can afford to do that.
The expensive part is taking CO2 out of the atmosphere. But if the temperatures are back to normal (whatever "normal" we choose), then CO2 is less of an issue.
- bamboozled 2y agoNo. If things get really bad, pretty much everyone will want to fix them. And as far as temperatures go, it's not even that expensive to fix - block/reflect some of the sun at scale. Cover some deserts in cheap mirror material is probably the cheapest way to do this. USA alone can afford to do that. Things are really bad for some people already, does the things you describe start to happen when they get bad for you specifically ?
- bufferoverflow 2y agoThey will start to happen when things get bad on a large scale. Right now they are not bad on a large scale.
- bamboozled 2y agoIt's going to be too late then, we can't just pull off these massive engineering projects with crop failures in the background.
- bufferoverflow 2y agoCrop failures won't just happen all at once. It's a gradual process. We will have plenty of time to react.
- bamboozled 2y agoHow quickly do you think we can cool the Earth off to stop crop failure issues from propagating even faster, assuming we've not already trigger some pretty decent feedback loops?