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So basically you are saying there is no upper limit to our ability to engineer our way out of the disasters we create. A lot of people, myself included, are ext

So basically you are saying there is no upper limit to our ability to engineer our way out of the disasters we create. A lot of people, myself included, are extremely skeptical of this point of view. It seems incredibly arrogant.

fleitz 12y ago
No, I'm basically saying that the current CO2 problem is something we can engineer our way out of. There are plenty of other theoretical problems that I don't think quickly engineer our way out of, like escaping an expanding sun, a sufficiently large blackhole, etc. However for the strawman of "we can engineer our way out of anything in 20 years" I would agree with you that that is arrogant. As I noted in the deleted post, the reason the IPCC still publishes reports is because it's a problem we can do something about. Do you disagree with this assessment? Are we beyond the point of no return?