One of the many lessons of covid that got ignored was that even with a radical shutdown of the world economy, we could not get to zero emissions, let alone the negative emissions we'll need to keep the earth recognizably the same. But it's still portrayed as a lifestyle choice
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My personal worry is that we're going to go directly from banning plastic straws to giving the Elon Musks of this world a trillion dollars to YOLO some terraforming idea without ever having had a serious climate policy debate.
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Emissions are a flow, but the stock of carbon is what is causing climate change, so I'm not sure that saying there's a huge time lag in between when emissions cause warming is correct - might have been true historically.
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Then again, I'm not a climate scientist.
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