I applaud your optimism. Given how international politics went in the last 5 years, I'm less and less optimistic that a normal path forward will be found. I rather fear that we'll get close to collapse (at least in some countries), before countries will act.
Of course, in the worst case for evolution of geopolitics, nuclear winter will take care of this for 5-10 years. (Yes, I'm that pessimistic).
I do think we will wait far longer than we need to.
I guess a better conclusion to this series would have been "we can stop emitting anytime we want, and the cost is falling, the question is how long we want to put this off".
Great series, thanks as always.
I applaud your optimism. Given how international politics went in the last 5 years, I'm less and less optimistic that a normal path forward will be found. I rather fear that we'll get close to collapse (at least in some countries), before countries will act.
Of course, in the worst case for evolution of geopolitics, nuclear winter will take care of this for 5-10 years. (Yes, I'm that pessimistic).
I do think we will wait far longer than we need to.
I guess a better conclusion to this series would have been "we can stop emitting anytime we want, and the cost is falling, the question is how long we want to put this off".
Ah, put that way, I mostly agree. I just think we'll "put this off" for a long time, sadly.