Too little, too late. We should've been switching to solar in the 80s. Even if we could switch to be carbon free tomorrow, the amount of CO2 already in the atmosphere is predicted to cause breadbasket collapses within the next 20 years.
If it makes folks feel better, there's a good chance you probably had no control/influence over this outcome if you were born after 1980.
It's not hopeless. The risk of crop failures may be higher than it would be if we were going to experience less warming, but having a bad harvest year isn't existential. We'll work to mitigate things.
This is why I think we need to roll the dice on geoengineering. We can try to tilt the odds in our favor, but it's still a crapshoot. From what I've read, iron fertilization would be one of the better paths to go. A potentially better path would be the creation of synthetic whale poop.
If it makes folks feel better, there's a good chance you probably had no control/influence over this outcome if you were born after 1980.
https://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-weve-underestimated...