I mean, at this point, we’re cruising full speed in that direction. Willy-nilly experiments to just throw shit at the wall and see if anything sticks is all we can really count on. We’re well passed the point of doing this the easy way.
They’re cost feasible, they’re just not profitable enough supposedly (though in a lot of cases, I think that’s also probably more or less bullshit, companies just don’t want to adapt).
Absolutely, but no one with the means to do those things has the will to, so the rest of us are left scrambling for a plan B. We’re on our last few laps around the drain - we need major interventions if we’re going to stop ourselves from going down.
Preserving the environment is no longer a good reason to not experiment on it, cuz if we stay the course it’s fucked anyway. It’s already broken beyond our current options to repair it.
We’re literally already doing that with greenhouse gasses on a gigantic global scale since the industrial revolution. Anything we can try is better than the course we’re on, especially since absolutely no one seem to want to seriously cut their emissions to 0.
Even if we did cut our emissions to 0 there would continue to be a rise in temperature for some time to come, glaciers would continue melting, and so forth. There’s feedback loops and inertia to this sort of thing.
Yes. However, the longer we wait, the worse it will get. If we look at all the various emission targets and dates, let’s say carbon neutrality for 2050 or whatever… Then it makes a huge huge different if we now cut 80% of those emissions in the first half, versus cutting them in the later half, or stretching it out painfully until the very end.
That’s why I’m so pessimistic about the whole topic. Everyone just slouches along as if there’s nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, a huge portion of our climate models seem to be even a bit too optimistic and not matching what is happening in the real world. And apparently it still does not care anyone. I just don’t get it.
lets just fuck this planet even more by doing experiments on the atmosphere willy-nilly. What’s the worst that can happen.
I mean, at this point, we’re cruising full speed in that direction. Willy-nilly experiments to just throw shit at the wall and see if anything sticks is all we can really count on. We’re well passed the point of doing this the easy way.
it would be nice to stop fucking up things further
Alright, we’ll just put that over here in the pile of solutions that definitely totally will really happen.
I think we should continue looking into other options in the meantime, though, just in case that doesn’t pan out for some reason.
Aren’t there some pretty definitive things that can be done… they’re just not cost-feasible for the people in charge.
They’re cost feasible, they’re just not profitable enough supposedly (though in a lot of cases, I think that’s also probably more or less bullshit, companies just don’t want to adapt).
Absolutely, but no one with the means to do those things has the will to, so the rest of us are left scrambling for a plan B. We’re on our last few laps around the drain - we need major interventions if we’re going to stop ourselves from going down.
Preserving the environment is no longer a good reason to not experiment on it, cuz if we stay the course it’s fucked anyway. It’s already broken beyond our current options to repair it.
We’re literally already doing that with greenhouse gasses on a gigantic global scale since the industrial revolution. Anything we can try is better than the course we’re on, especially since absolutely no one seem to want to seriously cut their emissions to 0.
Even if we did cut our emissions to 0 there would continue to be a rise in temperature for some time to come, glaciers would continue melting, and so forth. There’s feedback loops and inertia to this sort of thing.
Yes. However, the longer we wait, the worse it will get. If we look at all the various emission targets and dates, let’s say carbon neutrality for 2050 or whatever… Then it makes a huge huge different if we now cut 80% of those emissions in the first half, versus cutting them in the later half, or stretching it out painfully until the very end.
That’s why I’m so pessimistic about the whole topic. Everyone just slouches along as if there’s nothing to worry about. Meanwhile, a huge portion of our climate models seem to be even a bit too optimistic and not matching what is happening in the real world. And apparently it still does not care anyone. I just don’t get it.
my perpetual motion train and round the world track are still decades away!!