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It's already too late. Artic and seabed methane, slowing global heat exchanges, and growing populations in areas of the world where electrification is structura
by RelativeDelta 3y ago
It's already too late.
Artic and seabed methane, slowing global heat exchanges, and growing populations in areas of the world where electrification is structurally more difficult to implement due to geography and weather (both current and projected) mean we're headed "over the cliff" regardless.
Contemporary geopolitics makes a lot more sense when you realize that we're fighting about which groups dies from climate change, not IF some are going to.
The major threat as outlined by the UN is "de-complexification" (IE, society collapse) as a result of mass climate migration and conflict over limited/reduced resources.
There are no realistic pathways to prevent this situation now. It is already kicking off and will be fully underway within 20 short years.
The worst case scenario is we stretch ourselves too thin trying to manage everyone that we don't have enough excess to embark on emergency geo-engineering projects.
There was a disgraced Finnish MP who let the mask slip and suggested that the richer nations conduct a "Climate Abortion" on equatorial populations to prevent this scenario.
Ghoulish, but understandable in the face of existential threat.
Personally I'm foolishly hoping fusion becomes viable and changes some of the structural calculations underlying the projections. The difference it would make in desalination alone would go a long way.
- MSFT_Edging 3y agoAt this point, fusion feels more likely than carbon capture tech. It's a shame if we stop Atlantic shipping routes that pollute a ton of particulate, the earth will heat up even faster. One thing that I like to keep in the back of my head as a fun, unrealistic comfort is Alien stuff. IE some of the "whistleblowers" that have written how there's aliens under the sea, in what appears to boil down to organic automata, purpose built for the task, piloting vehicles that are built and broken down purpose built for a task, with a power source that seems near infinite. The description of them as zoo keepers, "abducting" people in areas where disease or bad health is rampant as some kind of "population check". It's oddly comforting because if they wanted to destroy humanity, they could, and one must ask why they haven't yet and why they would be simply watching. Hell maybe they'll save us all but in the mean time, I need to figure out how to grow potatoes, squash, and greens.