That's actually my thinking lately as well. Geoengineering gets shit on for good reason when simply reducing emissions is vastly more effective, but shit's still going to get fucked up real bad even if we reduced emissions to zero right this second. And we're not going to get anywhere close to zero emissions until the day communism becomes globally hegemonic. That could happen, but it's certainly not going to happen soon enough to be worth a damn when considering our options.
So it's looking to me like geoengineering is most likely our only realistic chance at taking action soon enough. I'm not sure if carbon sequestration will ever be viable without nuclear fusion, and wide spread nuclear fusion is also too far off into the future to save us.
That leaves blocking out the sun, either by particulates or by constructing some kind solar shade at the L1 Lagrange point to at least buy us some more time to reduce emissions and work on sequestration. The latter is just so obviously a pipe dream. So particulates it is, I guess. And who knows what horrific unintended side effects that will have on the global ecosystem.
Basically, we've fucked up. The events of the 21st century are going to spill a sea of blood orders of magnitudes deeper than anything else in literally all of human history. What luck we've been born at just the right time to witness it.
That's actually my thinking lately as well. Geoengineering gets shit on for good reason when simply reducing emissions is vastly more effective, but shit's still going to get fucked up real bad even if we reduced emissions to zero right this second. And we're not going to get anywhere close to zero emissions until the day communism becomes globally hegemonic. That could happen, but it's certainly not going to happen soon enough to be worth a damn when considering our options.
So it's looking to me like geoengineering is most likely our only realistic chance at taking action soon enough. I'm not sure if carbon sequestration will ever be viable without nuclear fusion, and wide spread nuclear fusion is also too far off into the future to save us.
That leaves blocking out the sun, either by particulates or by constructing some kind solar shade at the L1 Lagrange point to at least buy us some more time to reduce emissions and work on sequestration. The latter is just so obviously a pipe dream. So particulates it is, I guess. And who knows what horrific unintended side effects that will have on the global ecosystem.
Basically, we've fucked up. The events of the 21st century are going to spill a sea of blood orders of magnitudes deeper than anything else in literally all of human history. What luck we've been born at just the right time to witness it.