Can we recover from human caused climate change?

[Aroura]

At any rate, knowing we will some day go extinct, does that mean we should give up and just let it happen?  Does it mean we should behave completely irresponsibly?

Of course not. Where'd you get the idea that I needed to be told this?

Sorry, I'm on a rhetorical question kick.

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We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves.
You know where? Underground.
You should see it down there, hundreds of miles of drains, sweet and clean now, after the rain, dark, quiet, safe.
We can build houses and everything, start from scratch.
And what's so bad about living underground, eh?
S'not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion.

CHUD? lol

[I_am_not_mafia]

Doesn't mean to say the human race will go extinct, just civilisation as we know it and the evolution of humans to fill specific environmental niches.

Life will continue. We need to find a new source of energy far in excess of the oil bonanza in orer to keep progressing in the direction that we have been and not to lose everything that we have gained.

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We're gonna build a whole new world for ourselves.
You know where? Underground.
You should see it down there, hundreds of miles of drains, sweet and clean now, after the rain, dark, quiet, safe.
We can build houses and everything, start from scratch.
And what's so bad about living underground, eh?
S'not been so great living up here, if you want my opinion.

CHUD? lol

Musical version of War of the worlds by Jeff Wayne

[dyresand]

The answer is yes we can recover the problem now is we need to fight for green energy forcibly.
If we do not stop pumping Co2 into our atmosphere we will start a human level extinction even we already hit 404ppm and that rate will continue to accelerate until we can't
stop it. And at that point we will start dying because our atmosphere is polluted to breath. So it doesn't help the Exxon is now apart of our government we as normal people
need to start doing this ourselves and stop relying on the government to do things for us. No one is stopping the average person in investing in green energy or
making bio fuel and using. No one is stopping you from getting solar or converting your car to electric. We as a people need to stop relying on the government to get it done and do it ourselves. besides making bio fuel is fairly easy with used cooking oil there is guides out there showing you how to make the stuff.

[pocaracas]

The answer is yes we can recover the problem now is we need to fight for green energy forcibly.
If we do not stop pumping Co2  into our atmosphere we will start a human level extinction even we already hit 404ppm and that rate will continue to accelerate until we can't
stop it. And at that point we will start dying because our atmosphere is polluted to breath. So it doesn't help the Exxon is now apart of our government we as normal people
need to start doing this ourselves and stop relying on the government to do things for us. No one is stopping the average person in investing in green  energy or
making bio fuel and using. No one is stopping you from getting solar or converting your car to electric. We as a people need to stop relying on the government to get it done and do it ourselves. besides making bio fuel is fairly easy with used cooking oil there is guides out there showing you how to make the stuff.

Nevermind that biofuel only works on some diesel engines and you need some cleaning agent so your engine doesn't get clogged too quickly...
How many diesel cars do you regularly see in US roads, compared to gasoline?

[Mr Greene]

There is a last ditch solution in Global Dimming but it would have its own side effects. Acid rain being the most obvious.

[DocChartreuse]

"Can we recover?" Is an odd question to ask. Change is inevitable. The very idea of recovering from change is to imply that what we have is desirable to return too. Societal collapse happens a lot and for many reasons. We always try to recover, get things back to the way it was. Why? Whether the Earth is habitable or not will not change the fact that humanity, if it is going to survive at all, must permanently leave the comfort of the third rock from the sun. Most locations in space kill us within minutes. The Earth is only a temporary habitat, as at any moment a large metalic body, exploded supernova remnant, biological agent, internal political struggle, or many more global disasters could completely wipe out our species because the event made the Earth inhospitable to our form of life. Climate change is really a very mild change to the Earths surface, and will not cause "everything" to die. It is the political unrest and resulting wars over resources that will cause the most decline in the human species, and climate change only pokes that angry bear a little. Even if climate change could kill all life on the Earth, the planet would still be the third rock from the sun, and our species will most likely continue to survive on it. From an space empire management game theory idea, climate change is only a mild distraction, which we as a species will probably emerge better from than when we first encountered it. As has happened throughout human history. Struggle and necessity have lead to the greatest advances in human progress. Not contentment and sameness.

[arewethereyet]

"Can we recover?" Is an odd question to ask. Change is inevitable. The very idea of recovering from change is to imply that what we have is desirable to return too. Societal collapse happens a lot and for many reasons. We always try to recover, get things back to the way it was. Why? Whether the Earth is habitable or not will not change the fact that humanity, if it is going to survive at all, must permanently leave the comfort of the third rock from the sun. Most locations in space kill us within minutes. The Earth is only a temporary habitat, as at any moment a large metalic body, exploded supernova remnant, biological agent, internal political struggle, or many more global disasters could completely wipe out our species because the event made the Earth inhospitable to our form of life. Climate change is really a very mild change to the Earths surface, and will not cause "everything" to die. It is the political unrest and resulting wars over resources that will cause the most decline in the human species, and climate change only pokes that angry bear a little. Even if climate change could kill all life on the Earth, the planet would still be the third rock from the sun, and our species will most likely continue to survive on it. From an space empire management game theory idea, climate change is only a mild distraction, which we as a species will probably emerge better from than when we first encountered it. As has happened throughout human history. Struggle and necessity have lead to the greatest advances in human progress. Not contentment and sameness.

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[Peebothuhlu]

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