[pastor_elm]

>What are the chances that we will get our act together or be able to engineer ourselves out of all of these problems?

Engineering is what got us into this problem. Foolish to hope it can get us out.

[throwaway66920]

Rowing the boat got us out this far, it would be foolish to think that rowing the boat could get us back /s

[nabnob]

Thermodynamics doesn’t work like that. There’s no undo button.

[throwaway66920]

Thermodynamics doesn’t in the sense that entropy always continues... but that’s not really relevant. Climate change does have undo buttons.

Things like biodiversity loss may not.

[marcosdumay]

Well, the further you go, the less likely is it that you can row it back... What is the exact opposite of engineering.

What means that you made a clear point, that I don't think anybody misunderstood, with a clear optimistic message. Still I think it's more pessimist than the reality.

[abathur]

We didn't have to understand the systems and their feedback loops to break them.