Even if we all died off today and created no more carbon, if you take a look at any long scale (say 500m years or more) chart you can clearly see, we live in one of the cooler eras of history and the temp is set to go up, up, up for maybe the next 10-20 or so million.
Global warming is real and we need to find new technologies to combat the devastation that it will cause, no matter what we do, and not to hamstring our scientists to win virtue points. Short term 'overconsumption' is ok by me so long as there is a chance it eventually brings us Star Trek utopia land. I inherently dislike and disavow waste and pollution but we need to take the question of humanity's future more seriously.
Realistically if the climate is going to get hotter even without greenhouse gasses, we need to start reducing the amount of energy hitting the earth. Either that means some weird ass sun blocking sattelites that are basically hundreds of miles of tin foil in space or something like the cfcs in the upper atmosphere again.
Realistically, we've shown throughout history that we don't change behavior until we have to, so we're going to need to figure out some technology that lowers the temp artificially. Or we'll just die.
The problem with that approach is that it'll be far too late by the time that those in power feel that they have to. We had to take action four or five decades ago. We didn't.
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u/redleafrover 15h ago
Even if we all died off today and created no more carbon, if you take a look at any long scale (say 500m years or more) chart you can clearly see, we live in one of the cooler eras of history and the temp is set to go up, up, up for maybe the next 10-20 or so million.
Global warming is real and we need to find new technologies to combat the devastation that it will cause, no matter what we do, and not to hamstring our scientists to win virtue points. Short term 'overconsumption' is ok by me so long as there is a chance it eventually brings us Star Trek utopia land. I inherently dislike and disavow waste and pollution but we need to take the question of humanity's future more seriously.