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

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?