Finaly, some sense and logic into the climate doom thing. All post i see are just “Nhyee wE cAnT dO sHiT 4 tE wORldz mYke ASS wELL DiE nhhyyeee booo hoo hoo” Boo mother fucking hoo, we can absolutely stop global warming dead on its tracks and we all know how dont we? Nobody has the balls to actually say it ( me neither admidetly) let alone go through with it. While we and our children are condemned to suffer throught the hot climate, we can absolutelly save the world for our grand children if we work together and repalce our poluting tech with renewable electric shit powered by renewable energy sources, and also throw capitalistic lizard people out of the ecuation with that other thing that we dont talk abbout cuz you would be surpriced.

I so so much wish I could agree with you.

However, CO2 emissions are a bitch. Even if tomorrow we stop dead on our tracks, no more extra CO2 emissions, were still fucked for centuries to come.

Even if tomorrow we stop, and spend ALL the global energy output (now magically generated by nuclear, aoloar and wind) on filtering out all extra CO2, we’d still be fucked for decades to about a century.

That is if tomorrow we would start.

Reality is that we’re still actually INCREASING CO2 output because hydrocarbons are (truthfully) a great energy source and converting our entire infrastructure to alternative sources is expensive and hey, we have an economy to uphold and we have shareholders to keep happy, and governments still have so much money to give to gas and oil companies to sponsor their world destruction, even though they have proven lied to use for decades about the problem!

Also we’re so happy spending billions of dollars on green washed projects or on scam products that will just push more CO2 in the atmosphere, like Hyperloop and more and more electric cars!

So here is a very cold dose of reality for you.

Global temperatures will rise, and keepmtisijg faster and faster every year. Humanity won’t do shit until people start dying by the millions which, given current trends, I’d say will happen in about a decade from now.

Then we’ll finally really start trying to do something more beyond the bullshit were pulling now.

The CO2 in our atmosphere is there because we burned hydrocarbons. There is no way around it, there is no free lunch, we’ll have to pull that CO2 out. Filtering that out will cost roughly the same energy as we gemot by burning it. Then you need to store it somehow. But where? Because uouri talking about cubic kilometers worth of CO2 every. Single. Year. For decades to come. You can convert it to plastics, easier to store, but costs roughly twice the amount of energy we got for burning it.

So we’ll need to spend around three times the amount of energy we got from burning fossil fuels for the past two centuries

So to get there, For the next century or so, 30-50% of our entire energy production will have to go into CO2 scrubbing.

So expect energy prices to go nuts.

That is only on the cleaning up isle.

Then we’re in the “were currently fucked” isle. Weather patterns are changing rapidly which will affect food production. Expect food prices to rise to crazy levels, expect food shortages. Maybe even wars, when resources get really thin.

Expect loads of people to die during the summers due to high heat. Eh, that already had been happening multiple times, so expect it to be worse. Much, much worse

We’ll have to resolve to atmospheric engineering (which, technically, we’ve been doing already for the past centuries by dumping so much CO2 in it) and start pushing sulfuric compounds into the atmosphere to block out some of the solar radiation, temporarily at least. If we don’t, things will get fucked even worse.

Our generation is the last to enjoy the damn near free energy. The next generations will be paying through the nose for our partying, you’re welcome!

Oh yeah, and don’t expect politicians to do anything about it. They don’t understand the issues, they don’t understand the severity and they don’t give a shit as they need to please the rich, and theyl.rich only cares about being rich, they’ll by extra airconditioning or something.

TL;DR: We’re fucked, and millions, if not billions will die in the next decades over the results of climate change and there is nothing you cand do about it.