Or, if you still work in the industry and can find a way to make the shipping routes more efficient, or prevent future mistakes like that, you could make it into the green and achieve CO2 karmic heaven!
Obviously this advice is not good advice for anyone who wants to have children :)
There are ways to have children without creating your own.
That’s not to say that we should encourage them specifically to have children either; just that children represent potential in a way that the number of bunker-fuel cargo ships does not.
There is no practical way we can achieve the goal of survival for all through reduction of CO2 emissions. It's a farce because we'll never get all parties to agree.
The only path forward is to hope we have some very clever science and engineering that can help us survive this disaster.
It's a farce because it's already too late for emissions reductions to cut it. We need to pull carbon out of the atmosphere or, as you say, engineer other solutions.
But a robust solution is not going to be limited to the physical/material domain. Societies are malleable and so are people. We need to design ourselves and our activities into a vibrant planetary ecology, not throw up our hands and try to patch around historically contingent circumstances
As Octavia Butler put it, God is change, and change is not to be reacted to, but to be shaped
Could we come back from it? Hard to say.
If anything, we will not have enought humans around with our birth rate.
Technology is getting cleaner and cleaner each year: ev, solar panels, etc.
Look into Tony Seba for the energy revolution And joan Lomberg about what are our most important problems and solutions
I think we should put far less energy on climate change and more on our human problems: war, famine, poverty, corruption, etc.