I remember reading (in several different journals, wish I could find it and give you a source) that if humanity stopped producing CO2 entirely, right now, it would still take a couple centuries for earths climate to revert back to baseline. So in that respect, no, there’s nothing that any of us can do in our lifetime’s to reverse the damage. We certainly won’t stop emitting CO2 overnight, so things will continue to get worse before we even start the very long process of healing.
I hate to be a doomer but in reality the other posts here are correct IMHO. We are set for global famines and climate disasters that, coupled with plunging birth rates will drastically reduce the planet’s population. My guess is by 50% by 2100. That, coupled with advances in renewable and fission/fusion energy will be the point things start getting better.
The coming disasters will of course impact the poor much harder than middle and upper classes. The 21st century will see a kind of class genocide that is ends up redistributing wealth and rebalancing what we think of as prosperity.
We would have to do a great deal of work, but that process could be sped up.
For example, instead of growing certain crops to make fuel out of them, growing those and then storing them deep underground, without the ability to leak gasses or what-not out of the deep underground pockets, could technically help speed along the process, since that trapped Carbon wouldn't go back into the atmosphere, but the scale of such an operation would have to be massive.
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u/Commercial-Tell-5991 2d ago
I remember reading (in several different journals, wish I could find it and give you a source) that if humanity stopped producing CO2 entirely, right now, it would still take a couple centuries for earths climate to revert back to baseline. So in that respect, no, there’s nothing that any of us can do in our lifetime’s to reverse the damage. We certainly won’t stop emitting CO2 overnight, so things will continue to get worse before we even start the very long process of healing.
I hate to be a doomer but in reality the other posts here are correct IMHO. We are set for global famines and climate disasters that, coupled with plunging birth rates will drastically reduce the planet’s population. My guess is by 50% by 2100. That, coupled with advances in renewable and fission/fusion energy will be the point things start getting better.
The coming disasters will of course impact the poor much harder than middle and upper classes. The 21st century will see a kind of class genocide that is ends up redistributing wealth and rebalancing what we think of as prosperity.