@SallyStrange @Shivviness I merely base my opinion of human nature on historical precedence, we might change, that is a possibility, but history tells us that it is a faint possibility.

Me no, I’m probably much worse than most people. I have no illusions about that.

Anyway we can come back to this in 20 years & see who came closest.

I’m away to write my diary, which is actually going to be positive for once!

@Shivviness @SallyStrange Exactly.

Also money always wins - even with an anti-capability revolution (which will fuel climate change btw , think about before denying it) money will always come first, that is human nature. Down thru the centuries from the time humans first created city states. Remember that the written word was created by … accountants.

@Shivviness @SallyStrange 20 years time we will be looking back at 10 years before when geoengineering is tried large scale for the 1st time.

There will be much bemoaning the results & regretting that we didn’t understand the climate better. It will be named storms every other week, extremes of temperature, droughts & floods annually.

Think the future looks grim now, wait until we try large scale geo-engineering. Remember about the butterfly flapping its wings , imagine what a butterfly 100ft tall flapping its wings will do.

Actually given the presence of big money in the UK I suspect that, so long as it hasn’t moved to Asia or elsewhere, we will be doing better than one might expect. Rich people tend to protect their interests. Life will be awful for the rest of us like, but not as awful as it might be.
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@Shivviness @SallyStrange Yep.

Fools like Trump & Farage (to name 2 of the biggest venal idiots) think that we can tech our way out of this, but the tech & knowledge we need for that will not be available to anyone currently alive.

Geo-engineering will be tried, but because we have an imperfect understanding of how our climate really works it will fail - spectacularly!

@Shivviness @SallyStrange Because they put money & power before everything, because they don’t believe it will affect them because they can leave at a moments notice.