The discussion we need, perhaps, is not how to prevent global warming, but how to prepare to survive under the conditions created by it -- i.e., to regard global warming the way we regard an approaching rain squall: we don't wonder how to stop it but take our umbrella with us. Global warming is coming, and debate about how to stop it has become pointless. How do we prepare for it.
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Yes.
This is precisely what I've been saying for some time now and attracting brittle, soap boxy, disapprovingly wagging finger comments for my trouble.
Both online and off.
An example can be found in this thread:
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Much of our thinking is still dreamily stuck in 'how can we stop global warming?' mode. This isn't helpful because specialist after specialist insists that even if every offending device and system were to magically disappear overnight, the warming process would continue.
Our century long, uncontrolled experiment has achieved runaway.
So, as I've said before, re-design, system hardening and retro-fitting of our ways of building and moving and powering and generally being are urgently required.
The projects which research and develop such defensive measures - acting alongside efforts to curb emissions - are the most productive by far.
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