And governments worldwide know this and change policies without talking about it. That's the worst part. Let's just be open about it. It is time to prepare for the outcome, for all, not just a few richy-riches who want to settle on the moon and watch us burn in their first row seats.

I don't think we're past all the climate tipping points; that'd start to cause runaway changes. Swift action right now would still provide a chance to lessen the impact.

The worst case scenarios would be truly disastrous though, and would cause secondary human conflicts due to unavailability of basic resources.

I pray people stop having children.

Edit: to the hexbear user who accused me of ecofascism and asked "which people should stop having children?" my answer to you is:

Nobody should be having kids because the world is fucking ending.

Reproduction is stupid, selfish and immoral when we literally have a time line of between 6 and 25 years for running out of fresh water and arable land, and we're looking at 4+°c warming this century.

Hexbear is unfederated with piefed and I'm not going to torture my eyes trying to read this thread on its original instance again just to see if you respond, I'm pretty sure you're just going to accuse me of silly shit that doesn't make sense anyway. The last time I spoke to a hexbearer about antinatalism, they called me a eugenicist for talking about not having kids. Lmao.

Sure, we're on course for disaster. But pretending like there is a single tipping point and that we're Doomed (doomed, I say!) anyway, is just a convenient excuse to wallow in hopelessness and inaction. The truth is that we're still making things worse by the day, and every kilo of CO2 saved helps slow down the speed of the disaster. And those little efforts by folks like us, might still make the difference between 1 billion dead or 1.1 billion dead.

Isnt that the grift thingy Callum Upton used to rag on?

Let's make it profitable as well!

It wasn't a fuck up. It was wittingly perpetrated on us and the planet.

This is the only sensible solution. Banning fossil fuel like we banned the chemicals that caused acid rain and the hole in the ozone layer? That’s crazy. Building hydro dams and electric trains? Crazier still. Setting off a volcano with a nuke to blot out the sun? Perfectly sensible.

Why would I trust the people who did this with the task of geoengineering our way out of this? Because that’s who is pushing all of it. All of the major polluters are pushing that bullshit because funding research into nonsense is cheaper than reducing emissions. Sorry filks, we aren’t gonna stop pillaging the planet, but how about we reduce the sunlight that piwers the entire natural world instead? It’s the same as the many failed attempts at introducing species as biological controls, just on a grander scale.

This, yes if the world did not pollute and all of us changed tomorrow it would have been the best, but let's not lie, this ship has not changed direction. I really think this will give us time and save the most we have to eventually change the ship's direction. We have basically already geoengineered our way here, let's geoengineer our way to a better world