What about tipping points? I hear about ice cover, ocean currents, and other systems where once we get past a tipping point, additional warming is self sustaining. At that point it doesn't matter if we have our brakes on, we've gone over the cliff right?

[–] trafguy@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If we end up triggering a self-sustaining feedback loop, that's how I understand it, yeah. We still do have some very high risk strategies we could implement, like solar shielding to reduce total light reaching the earth, or bioengineering plants that suck up carbon super efficiently, but it's hard to say what the impacts of those would be

[–] toxic@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I don’t see either of those happening because there’s no short-term profit. Also, unintended consequences.

[–] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't consider solar shielding high risk, since it would be easy to design fail-safe, but I totally wouldn't trust bioengineering methods, since life uhh... finds a way.