Global Warming: Long term observations yield unsurprising results

[Thumpalumpacus]

Pretty much been our thing since day one though, eh? Exploit the environment to put off ones personal or collective "day of reckoning"? Imagine a future dystopia, horrendously overpopulated in the grandest sense. I think we'd find some way of exploiting that body rich environment, you? IDK, we made it through a couple of major fuel crisis (and many, many major environmental changes)..sometimes we did more than just make it. It's difficult to understand the day of reckoning portion, in the context of a creatures whose specialty is and always has been general survival. There is the alternative speculation - that our future fuel changeover (it'll have to happen eventually) will follow the same patterns that previous changeovers have gone. With some areas benefiting greatly and others missing that train.

I don't think previous changeovers had to face the corporate intransigence that this one will.

Of course, all of life is about putting off the day of reckoning. The question is, have we selected the right strategy? I'm not sure that "oh, we've managed crises before, let's not worry about this one" cuts much ice.

-Some work in storage and transmission (of energy in municipal grids) would probably forestall that change for centuries. If we didn't have to burn full speed all the time -in case- power was required...and instead produced discrete units with the ability to buffer the whole. Better battery, essentially.

Absolutely Better batteries, and smaller, more efficient transducers, so that more energy can be produced locally from indigenous sources.