If humans wanted to solve climate change, what would be the most effective thing to do? It’s a complex system, what’s the most efficient action? We are intelligent enough to have systems theory and climate change models so let’s work it out. There is an answer. Your thoughts?
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I don’t think there is a quick way to treat CO2 emissions as an independent variable that can be changed without massively changing everything else we know and like. A cap on human population at preindustrial levels within a generation would probably be effective but unpopular.
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I’ve sometimes imagined climate change as antibodies trying to fight off a virus.
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Yes, but it is not a reaction to the virus. It is almost as if the virus was bred to make more carbon available for biological activity.
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Caring about climate change is like caring about being run over by drunk driver. Sure you can ban cars and alcohol and live the rest of your life with more comfort and less fun. But you will die anyway - surely, certainly and soon
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Climate change is about whether your children will be run over by a drunk driver.
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That's exactly what's going on. Man vs Nature.
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Nature will be fine. The current reduction in complexity of ecosystems will affect our food chains but is temporary.
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The sun will also expand in a billion years and vaporize the Earth, so I guess the solar lifecycle is a way to "Solve Earth"?
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This is brilliant. I guess that's why you earn the big bucks. If not quoted in prestigious publications everywhere it should at least be on a T-Shirt.
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Dark thoughts belong to man. They are warning beacons.
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