silence7This Scientist Wants to Block the Sun to Cool the Earth
acargitzWouldn’t cutting down emissions be less precarious, easier to implement gradually, less unpredictable, more economically feasible in the long run, and less risky to fall on our heads?
All of those except that it means less profits for the people who own big oil.
If we eliminated all CO~2~ emissions tomorrow, we would still be stuck with all the CO~2~ we’ve released. A lot of the CO~2~ we’ve released has been taken up by the oceans. We have to find a way to sequester that C0~2~ “back in the ground” in order to back to levels we had years ago in order to head off/reverse global climate change.
Global warming is not something that would have been prevented by not industrializing. It would have instead been slower and more gradual, but inevitable all the same. What is fucking the planet is not the fact it’s happening, it’s the rate at which it’s happening. If all human-created global emissions were to cease immediately today, disasters would still happen regardless. This is why some scientists are proposing geoengineering solutions: to prevent the inevitability regardless of CO2 release.