Id like lemmings take on how they would actually reduce emissions on a level that actually makes a difference (assuming we can still stop it, which is likely false by now, but let’s ignore that)
I dont think its as simple as “tax billionaires out of existence and ban jets, airplanes, and cars” because thats not realistic.
Bonus points if you can think of any solutions that dont disrupt the 99%'s way of life.
I know yall will have fun with this!
Geoengineering: Whether through launching solar shades into space to block sunlight and cool the planet down, pump aerosols into the atmosphere, cloud seeding, or anything else. I think this is where our research should be going. I think it’s too late to avoid the worst-case-scenarios of climate change from merely cutting emissions, so more drastic measures to alleviate or even reverse the effects may be necessary. Plus it’ll help us with any future colonizing and terraforming of worlds outside of Earth.
Public transport infrastructure to reduce our reliance on cars & planes: While I don’t think hyperloops or a transatlantic tunnel are feasible, building tens of thousands of kilometres worth of overground and underground railway routes to interconnect towns and cities with high speed maglev trains is. China have the right idea.
Right to work from home: Remote working reduces our dependency on cars and frees up real estate to address the various housing crises we have.
Right to repair and outlawing planned obsolescence: Should we have to buy a new smartphone every 3 or so years because Apple or Samsung want to maximize profits? Do we care at all about the amount of electronic waste we’re producing?
Accelerate our efforts to reverse desertification and plant trillions more trees: If we can turn parts of the Sahel, Gobi Desert and the Australian outback green, that could have a very beneficial effect on the environment.
Oh hell no. Lets not fuck with nature even more. We must not play god! Geoengineering might cause more problems than its use!
It’s the only viable option given how much we’ve fucked the planet up.
Stopping (not reducing) emissions won’t stop already ongoing feedback loops, it’ll just prevent going full Venus.
If human civilization simply ceased to exist it’d still take millions of years for temperatures to go back to pre-human levels.
Sequestering enough carbon or increasing albedo don’t seem like feasible options.
We need to put a shade between Earth and the Sun, it’s the only option that seems possible before we collapse, and it would achieve immediate results (of course it’d also give companies an excuse to keep pumping carbon into the atmosphere, since the problem would be “solved”, so we’d be back on track for Venus style runaway greenhouse effect in one or two decades).
We’re 100% fucked.
I agree and it concerns me how much geoengineering bro talk there is and responding to descent with luddites and your concerns are overdone its all good.