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1. Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 01-Feb-2019 04:26:01 UTC Adam

   • allan 📊

   @allan I feel like whatever geoengineering ends up happening will come 15 years too late and will end up fucking the planet up worse than if we'd done nothing. Like, humanity might eke out an extra generation as a result, but we'll actually doom the entire biosphere instead of just ourselves. I'd love to be wrong, of course. I'd love to deus ex machina our way out of this nightmare (but also not, because then we won't address the root causes).

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   • allan 📊 (allan@mastodon.club)'s status on Friday, 01-Feb-2019 05:12:10 UTC allan 📊

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     @ink_slinger alternatively extreme climate change will wreak enough havoc soon enough that it destroys our ability to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and eventually everything stabilizes into a new normal.

     Along the way sea level rise and significantly warmer tropics wipe out large swaths of humanity but people still live at the extremes and in the margins of a world remade.

     Bob Jonkman repeated this.
   • Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 01-Feb-2019 22:42:13 UTC Bob Jonkman
     @ink_slinger writes: "whatever geoengineering ends up happening will come 15 years too late and will end up fucking the planet up worse than if we'd done nothing." Yup.
   • Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Friday, 01-Feb-2019 22:43:18 UTC Bob Jonkman

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     • Bob Jonkman
     • allan 📊
     @allan writes: "alternatively extreme climate change will wreak enough havoc soon enough that it destroys our ability to continue pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and eventually everything stabilizes into a new normal." Yup also. Those two things aren't mutually exclusive, you know. /cc: @ink_slinger