Humans are not a way to solve climate change, climate change is a way to solve humans. #darkwednesdaythoughts
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Replying to @Plinz
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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Replying to @AnneCregan
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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Replying to @Plinz @AnneCregan
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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