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At this point I think we just need to face the fact that we're going to have to darken the skies with particulates in order to combat global warming.
There's just no way we're ever going to get corporations to stop killing us with greenhouse gasses.
It's not out of the question that we'll see that as a means of managing overshoot. It's a very high-risk approach: it means killing everything in the oceans with calcium-based hard body parts, and it means maintaining technical infrastructure for longer than civilizations last, which humans don't have a track record of doing.
I don't see how we can avoid it. Did you see the paper the other day about how new evidence shows that were headed towards a 10⁰ C rise?
Can you point me to that paper? Google only turns up results stating that if we burned all fossil fuels on the planet we'd hit 10°C
Sure.
Might want to make yourself a stiff drink before you read this one.
https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/Documents/PipelinePaper.2023.07.05.pdf
Saw it when it came out. It's well outside the consensus from people who study the topic.