Of course we are going to need to use technology to mitigate the effects, even if we stop all carbon emissions tomorrow we are already dealing with an altered climate. You can't just vacuum up all the carbon and put it in the ground, and you can't get all the warm freshwater out of the oceans. I don't think I've ever seen a claim that we only need to stop carbon emissions and everything will be fine, here or otherwise.
You're arguing against something that people don't really say, and in the process you're making arguments in support of climate change denial. Are you really surprised people are pushing back on you?
>and in the process you're making arguments in support of climate change denial
I am in fact not. Climate change "denial", such as this is even a real conviction that exists, is simply a phrase used as a hammer to get people to agree with a particular political program. Do you support declaring war on China and India and grinding their economies to a screeching halt? Because that would actually be the most effective way to drop carbon emissions back down to pre-1990s levels. The only countries that care about this stuff are the ones where their carbon emissions are a rounding error. The ones that don't care about this are the actual problems.
Australian here. What makes you think the "forest fire prevention" methods you outlined upthread are "basic"?
Have they ever been performed at the scale required in the history of European occupation of North America?
Normally dry lightening doesn't cause so many strikes to spark, nor do sparked fires normally spread so far and fast. Regardless of cause there are vast areas of remote forest covered land with extremely low moisture indexes - ie. dry as a tinderbox.
Clearing that land area of dry under brush and criss crossing it with wide firebreaks is no casual undertaking.
American here. They are basic where I come from (the midwest). We learned about them as children. Australians used to have a similar sense of adventure and appetite for what would otherwise be considered difficult projects.