> Maybe time has already run out, and it's too late to prevent the terrible consequences.
My point is that there are options for the future. Even if they are not palatable ones. It's not as cut and dry as global warming has already started, it is too late to fix it or mitigate it, and we are all fucked no mater what.
> My point is that there are options for the future. Even if they are not palatable ones.
You really need to elaborate about the "not palatable" aspect. What I've heard are only extremely dubious and unproven ideas with possible consequences as bad or worse than the current consequences. You make it sound like the problem is just public acceptance, but that's not the real problem with the so-called "options". There are no magic beans here.
It's very much proven that our atmosphere can be impacted differently by different gasses. We don't have a fix it now button. But we are also not on a downward spiral with zero options.
The problem is largely with public acceptance. We've been negatively impacting our atmosphere for a very long time. Any and every half effort measure that has been taken to mitigate or reverse the damage has failed. The damage continues.
It seems much more likely, and makes a lot more sense, to me for us to focus on large scale efforts that might have an immediate and actual impact. Instead of hoping that tomorrow maybe people will start to listen and everyone will give up eating meat, corporations will go carbon zero, and green energy will become the default.
If climate change continues, which it seems like it certainly will, someone/some nation state will attempt solar geoengineering. I'd rather us be 25+ years into researching how to safely and effectively do it than have a small desperate people do it as a last hope.
Is it dangerous? Absolutely. Does it seem scary and even stupid right now? Sure. 100%. But it sounds like a better option than watching life slowly die out while saying I told you so...
My point is that there are options for the future. Even if they are not palatable ones. It's not as cut and dry as global warming has already started, it is too late to fix it or mitigate it, and we are all fucked no mater what.