Obviously, this will probably never happen. In the best future for humanity, maybe we can drop our emissions enough to allow for such a thing. But more likely societal collapse

  • Kit Sorens@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    If we went carbon neutral today, things would continue to worsen for an estimated 50-70 years before correcting. Only going significantly carbon negative solutions will have the rapid, desired effect, and that’s nigh impossible.

    • mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      One of the Civilization 6 expansions introduces climate changes. You can unlock a technology for carbon recapture, however, generally by the time you are able to unlock it, climate change is already occurring. You’re also not able to reverse damage that has already been done.

      While it can be frustrating in game, I appreciate the fact that the developers realistically incorporated it not being feasible.

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    1 year ago

    If this does happen, and there are strong carbon controls globally, we could potentially reverse global warming very very slowly. But it would trend to the better. I’m hopeful