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by RelativeDelta 984 days ago
Agree on the last point, but the net zero strategy is a losing game. We can't reduce fast enough to avoid the multiplier effects (slowing heat exchanges in atmosphere and ocean currents, loss of polar reflectance, thawing of sea floor and boreal methane deposits, etc.).

The only way out at this point is fusion/fission and using excess power to decarbonize.

Population reductions in the developing world would help too, since that's where the majority of global carbon will be emitted over the next 50 years.