"We need to stop pretending we can prevent the imminent collapse of civilization."
Maybe it will collapse when rising ocean acidification causes the base of the ocean ecosystem to collapse, eliminating a billion peoples' access to protein, leading to global war.
Maybe it will collapse when, in multiple regions, agriculture fails, and just being outside on certain days is fatal, so 200M people who happen to live there are obliged to go where other people already live, crossing borders and triggering rise of fascist governments, thus shortly global thermonuclear war.
Any other imminent inevitable global collapse scenarios as consequences of failure to contain global climate catastrophe? One suffices. So whichever is first matters. Events after will be much less predictable.
Certainly some people will survive the collapse, most likely even millions, maybe even a billion or more. But anyway major releases of CO2 would cease along with international trade and concrete construction.
Getting existing excess CO2 back out of the atmosphere would be beyond the capabilities of the remnant population, but waiting a couple of centuries would take care of that.
Maybe it will collapse when rising ocean acidification causes the base of the ocean ecosystem to collapse, eliminating a billion peoples' access to protein, leading to global war.
Maybe it will collapse when, in multiple regions, agriculture fails, and just being outside on certain days is fatal, so 200M people who happen to live there are obliged to go where other people already live, crossing borders and triggering rise of fascist governments, thus shortly global thermonuclear war.
Any other imminent inevitable global collapse scenarios as consequences of failure to contain global climate catastrophe? One suffices. So whichever is first matters. Events after will be much less predictable.
Certainly some people will survive the collapse, most likely even millions, maybe even a billion or more. But anyway major releases of CO2 would cease along with international trade and concrete construction.
Getting existing excess CO2 back out of the atmosphere would be beyond the capabilities of the remnant population, but waiting a couple of centuries would take care of that.