Even In the 1990s, people knew that environmental efforts were going to fail and people have already started trying techniques to terraform the planet.
2) various records will be breached, eventually a perceptual point will be crossed, but it will be far, far too late to save the planet.
3) poltical imperatives will change, soon after public imperatives change.
4) since the risk/reward from stoping environmental damage is now a divide by 0 operation, "can-do" individuals/groups (the same firms who created this mess), will pitch geo-engineering/terraforming
5) Governments will propose multi billion dollar programs to do this, farming out contracts for "jobs!"
Bonus) hacker news 2.0 will debate on various economic models to support such work, and people will say they hate big government, so let's give limited resource rights to these firms as compensation instead of government largesse.
They'll brand it as jobs creation, man against nature, and use it to capture more power and funding.
I've been right betting on my reasoning for non standard events before, and I can't see any reason this won't happen. Within a few deviations of the original plan.
If you're lying - and if the audience knows you're lying, but supports you anyway, you can certainly say anything and just turn on a dime. From CO2 is life to CO2 is death. For this plan yo work, the owners would have to sell the oil refineries and rigs now when you can get a better price, and only then change the rhetoric.
The buyer would have to bet on milking the CO2 is life for a decade yet.
This is actually my pitch for YC S23, Earth 2.3 it's a SAAS based volunteer program to head up extra-terra farming with a weekly delivery option. Looking for a CTO/co-founder.
Even In the 1990s, people knew that environmental efforts were going to fail and people have already started trying techniques to terraform the planet.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=nArq-K7ZiacC&pg=PA420&dq...
Take a look at he geoengineering options.
This is how it's going to go down.
1) environmental attempts will fail.
2) various records will be breached, eventually a perceptual point will be crossed, but it will be far, far too late to save the planet.
3) poltical imperatives will change, soon after public imperatives change.
4) since the risk/reward from stoping environmental damage is now a divide by 0 operation, "can-do" individuals/groups (the same firms who created this mess), will pitch geo-engineering/terraforming
5) Governments will propose multi billion dollar programs to do this, farming out contracts for "jobs!"
Bonus) hacker news 2.0 will debate on various economic models to support such work, and people will say they hate big government, so let's give limited resource rights to these firms as compensation instead of government largesse.
They'll brand it as jobs creation, man against nature, and use it to capture more power and funding.
I've been right betting on my reasoning for non standard events before, and I can't see any reason this won't happen. Within a few deviations of the original plan.