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“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
Climate change is undeniable and destructive, but its exact effects and timescale is difficult to discern. Political and economic changes are, similarly, difficult to predict.
I’m not saying it’s all going to be fine. I’m saying “give up” and “watch and see” require the same amount of effort anyway.
I believe the only surefire guaranteed way to destroy the world is for us to give up, so I won’t
Honestly, reading Marx and about dialectical materialism has helped. It’s important to understand our world is incredibly dynamic and in a constant state of flux. We cannot look at our present (bleak) situation and assume it will just continue or get worse linearly.
I’m a geologist and climatologist
Climate change is real and a huge threat BUT there are people in the field far more intelligent than I am working on real solutions for carbon sequestration. The technology isn’t quite there yet to do it on a global scale, but we definitely have the method we want to use figured out. This development has only happened in the last 10 years, and at our current rake we might just be able to implement silicate weathering on a wide enough scale to avoid some of the most severe and civilization destroying climate disasters. Look up the carbonate-silicate cycle if you want to know more about it.
Here’s a good place to start if you want more scientific literature But you can just search “silicate carbonate weathering” if you want some cool and concise graphics on how it functions. We are basically trying to accelerate a cycle that happens over tens of millions of years and condense them down into human timescales
My understanding is that this basically involves crushing massive quantities of rock and dumping it into the ocean. It’s at best a short term solution (haha).
