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Technically capitalism will probably have a maximum co2 level, probably far after we see how harmful it is and it starts negatively impacting it.

This is an excellent point. The energy transition is more accurately an energy addition. Some renewables on top of a still-increasing pile of burning fossil fuels.

Same with EVs. More are being sold every year but more ICE cars are being sold, too.

Until the fossil fuel industry actually shrinks, things are hopeless.

Seeing those alfalfa farms all over my desert state turns me into an extremist.

There are huge vegetarian populations though (think about India), app it's not completely against human nature....

Nothing really matters until we stop pulling carbon-based fuels out of the ground and lighting them on fire.

I say it all the time. The only possible way to keep carbon from outside the carbon cycle from entering the carbon cycle is to stop taking carbon from outside the carbon cycle and putting it into the carbon cycle. No amount of coal plant filtration or growing trees or building wind farms will take carbon from inside the carbon cycle out of the carbon cycle.

400 ppm is too much, and the mechanisms for putting that carbon in the ground is gone and never coming back. The best we can possibly do is stop making it worse, and we won't, because everyone wants to have a whole chicken in their fridge that'll end up rotting because the availability of goods, whether we'll actually consume them or not, is the most important thing in the world.

You won’t. We’re combatting near-exponential growth. Each year we need to increase our efforts just to prevent worsening, let alone reversal.

This is because the largest accelerant is completely out of our control now. As the ice caps melt, desalinating our oceans, rich black soil is exposed. This soil absorbs and retains heat far more readily than the white ice, accelerating the warming of nearby ground ice. As bacteria begins to break down the newly thawed decaying organisms, large amounts of methane is released into the atmosphere. Methane traps 28x more heat than CO2, then it breaks down into CO2 and water after a decade where it continues to retain heat for centuries.

But we’re out of ideas!

The solution is simple: we just need to collapse another 100 USSRs and drop that to two USSRs per year. We did it guise, we solved the climate crisis!

To lose hope for a better tomorrow is to roll over and accept the worst

I'll fight to my dying breath for a better tomorrow because I have hope in achieving that goal

Even if that better tomorrow is only slightly better than no change or if that better tomorrow is making sure that those I care about aren't completely up a creek if shit goes sideways

Anything is better than rolling over and letting the world go to shit like a loaded up semi with no brakes down a mountain

Because the alternative is to become a pessimistic doomer and tune out pretending it's all hopeless?

I think that’s partly due to the fall of the soviet union, which caused a noticeable drop in carbon emissions.

water gas is a particularly intense greenhouse gas :p

Steal jupiter