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by PeterStuer 2352 days ago
Thing is the world's climate will not fail us gradually.

Past the 'tipping point' the 'Geo-engineers' will be let out of the asylum and get to deploy their crackpot hail-Mary schemes playing fast and loose with a runaway high dimensional complex feedback system they (or we) barely are beginning to understand.

There is no 'backup' on this planet. There is no 'safety net'. There is no 'oh shit, abort!' button.

An optimist would say we are just going to make sure to speed up the inevitable.