[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.