Looks like there’s little to nothing we can do to stop the effects of climate change these days. Might as well just give up and accept the inevitable, a lot less stressful that way.
sigh
Not saying the sky is or isn't falling, just that we have so much ready access to so many sources of information, each with a vested interest in getting you to come view their content - and what better way than highlighting the doom and gloom? - that there is the real situation of bad news overload. That, in turn, makes things seem worse than they are.
It's no wonder the suicide rates are increasing.
However, we should oppose the mindset of giving up. I have a 5/yo daughter and it is simply unfair to her and her generation if we didn't at least try to dampen the effects of climate change as much as we can.
So there is hope of not making things much worse.
There’s no way we can eliminate the use of fossil fuels in the next ten years. There’s no way we can change consumer diets to rely less on methane producing animals. There’s nothing we can do to stop the acidification of oceans and the collapse of aquaculture. And when the permafrost melts and releases methane exponentially into the atmosphere it’s game over.
Unless we have a way to siphon out gases from the atmosphere, we’re finished.
Nothing short of a total war mobilization of the economy and research will even remotely get close to preventing the absolute worst aspects, but it may be possible to salvage parts of the planet.
It's called carbon sequestration and it costs $100 - $300 per ton. So for a few $trillion, we could get net zero. Expensive, but comparable to the Iraq war or Apollo program in costs. A lot cheaper than WWII. Another way of thinking about it is that it would approximately double the price of gas.