''are you saying that we should forget all about climate change? that we shouldn't bother reducing emissions?
this reads like defeatism.''
call it what you like ------------ IMO, the battle is lost
let me tell you what is going to happen - we are going to have climate change - biggly
we know this - we KNOW that the AMOC among other big drivers is going to stall - that is beyond doubt or argument ------------ when?
well that's the ? atm - but, probably inside of a century ---------------- and might be alarmingly closer - like really closer
but, whilst a century sounds like a long time ----------- think about what we need to do when it happens
the building of infrastructure to handle such a change or and the relocation of hundreds, maybe billions of humans - will generate far far more emissions than before
will we think about climate change and reducing emissions when we have to rehouse billions? ------------ or they die?
no way - particularly when there's massive profit in rehousing
whilst it matters not if I say we 'should' or 'should not' forget about emissions - the fact is - we will
one has to understand when a battle is lost ---------------------- look at the temperatures now and the rate of rise -
the 'battle' is already lost
what one needs to be doing now is to be organising for the survivors of the defeat
you call it defeatism ------------- I call it planning
