Humans are not a way to solve climate change, climate change is a way to solve humans. #darkwednesdaythoughts
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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Danny Hillis suggests geoengineering via increasing atmospheric reflectance. I think that’s risky and difficult to get right. We probably also had some tipping points last century and have to somehow refreeze the poles to deal with the runaway methane feedback loop.
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If our interventions rock the boat too much, we could exceed the capacity of existing ecosystems to adapt, which is what we wanted to prevent in the first place, so for instance triggering a global nuclear winter may be a bad idea. Also, everything above is pure speculation.
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