Stopping the digging up and burning of carbon fuels is a start.
It took the planet literal hundreds of thousands of years to get the carbon level of the atmosphere down to preindustrial levels, and we’ve undone that in the past near 200
It’ll take a lot, but it’s not impossible to increase carbon capture, use ground based solar to give shade and re-green some desert areas (proven to work) we can easily provide the entire earth’s power requirements while also increasing the carbon sequestration.
Mitigation is always possible. If we don’t do it intentionally, eventually the climate will force our hand. This will result in billions of human deaths, extinction of many organisms, and massive destruction of the current global ecology, but it will happen.
Remember, the Sahara wasn’t always a desert, and North America was more than once covered in ice.
We’re likely to die off due to poisoning the environment long before the climate makes a significant dent in our 8bn population.
We’re not going to escape sea level rise or some places becoming uninhabitable, nor a redistribution of water and total destruction of all weather models. But we can slow the changes to the point where we can adapt faster than the climate changes… and the more we mitigate, the more lives we save along the way.
Im not really saying that they use science to solve the issue, though. Im just wondering if the people most informed on the issue have done any critical thinking on a new path forward knowing the current path is insurmountable.
Right now, it seems, we are petitioning government and businesses while asking consumers to be conscious.
Maybe its time to start offering options to people who are aware of the issue but dont have means. So maybe they can start taking actions that account for the drastic devastating consequences that are yet to come.
Me, personally, I dont have children. Im hitting mid life but if im honest with myself Im probably way past it. I might see the cataclyism but I dont expect to live through it.
Use less fossil fuels. We have the technology to have electrified public transport, for instance. We just don’t have the political will or the financial backing. This is not really a problem that scientists are well equipt to solve.
Sorry if you think Im throwing shade. I just dont see how mitigation is possible.
Stopping the digging up and burning of carbon fuels is a start.
It took the planet literal hundreds of thousands of years to get the carbon level of the atmosphere down to preindustrial levels, and we’ve undone that in the past near 200
It’ll take a lot, but it’s not impossible to increase carbon capture, use ground based solar to give shade and re-green some desert areas (proven to work) we can easily provide the entire earth’s power requirements while also increasing the carbon sequestration.
Mitigation is always possible. If we don’t do it intentionally, eventually the climate will force our hand. This will result in billions of human deaths, extinction of many organisms, and massive destruction of the current global ecology, but it will happen.
Remember, the Sahara wasn’t always a desert, and North America was more than once covered in ice.
We’re likely to die off due to poisoning the environment long before the climate makes a significant dent in our 8bn population.
We’re not going to escape sea level rise or some places becoming uninhabitable, nor a redistribution of water and total destruction of all weather models. But we can slow the changes to the point where we can adapt faster than the climate changes… and the more we mitigate, the more lives we save along the way.
Im not really saying that they use science to solve the issue, though. Im just wondering if the people most informed on the issue have done any critical thinking on a new path forward knowing the current path is insurmountable.
Right now, it seems, we are petitioning government and businesses while asking consumers to be conscious.
Maybe its time to start offering options to people who are aware of the issue but dont have means. So maybe they can start taking actions that account for the drastic devastating consequences that are yet to come.
Me, personally, I dont have children. Im hitting mid life but if im honest with myself Im probably way past it. I might see the cataclyism but I dont expect to live through it.
They proved that it is happening, that it is caused by humans and explained again and again how it can be mitigated.
That’s all science can do. You might be thinking of technology and not science.
Use less fossil fuels. We have the technology to have electrified public transport, for instance. We just don’t have the political will or the financial backing. This is not really a problem that scientists are well equipt to solve.
Just shoot all the planes