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If we sit on our thumbs and do nothing about it perhaps (the uncertainty bars around long term damage are massive though). But changing CO2 levels is not the on
by ls612 2y ago
If we sit on our thumbs and do nothing about it perhaps (the uncertainty bars around long term damage are massive though). But changing CO2 levels is not the only way to avert that damage.
- caipre 2y agoWhat are the viable alternatives that you have in mind?
- rqtwteye 2y agoWhat else is there? Geoengineering sounds interesting but nobody knows what the ultimate effects would be in a complex system like the Earth. And if geoengineering is done on a global level there will probably be winners and losers. How do you negotiate that?
- coryrc 2y agoThe strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
- resoluteteeth 2y ago> But changing CO2 levels is not the only way to avert that damage. It is currently. Everything else is basically gambling on technology that doesn't yet exist.
- ls612 2y agoWe removed sulphur from ship fuels and managed to increase the temperature by 0.1C almost immediately. We may not intentionally be using non-CO2 methods to influence the climate but we are certainly capable of it by accident.
- axitanull 2y agoSo you propose we roll the dice and hope for more accidents to happen?
- ls612 2y agoI propose we use our powers of reasoning and knowledge of chemistry as a species to try to do better than just rolling the dice and hoping for the best. Economic suicide and blind luck are not the only options. But for some economic suicide appears to be the goal.