Cid_Yama wrote:With less than 10 years remaining before most of the planet reaches the point where peak heat stresses make it uninhabitable, what would the political priorities be?
Cid_Yama wrote:Crop failure, collapse of social controls, and the inability to cool ourselves will be the things that do us in.
Famine, dehydration, peak heat stresses, violent crime, and war will be what kills us.
SeaGypsy wrote:Why don't you just get to the point and answer the question? Would it help or not?
Earth Abides - George A. Stewart"Where shall we go, Ish?" one of them asked. Ish felt that this was a
strange question for anyone to ask of him, who was only an old man and
would scarcely know what to do as well as the young ones would. Then he
remembered that they sometimes asked him which direction they should take
for their hunting. When he did not answer, they pinched him. He did not
like to be pinched, and so he thought hard now, as to which way they should
go. The young men themselves, he realized, could outrun the fire, but he
himself would not be strong enough. So he thought more intensely than he
had thought for a long time, both because he wished to save his own life
and the lives of the young men, and also because he was afraid that they
would pinch him. Thinking so intently, he remembered the bare flat rock
where they had carved the numerals of the years in the time long ago. Round
this flat rock were other high rocks where nothing grew, and in the spaces
among these rocks they could find shelter because nothing was there to
burn.
Cid_Yama wrote:With less than 10 years remaining before most of the planet reaches the point where peak heat stresses make it uninhabitable, what would the political priorities be?
Cid_Yama wrote:Will we see massive programs, both governmental and private, to geoengineer a solution? Could anything even be attempted in so short a time?
Addressing Climate Crisis, President Bush Calls For Development Of National Air Conditioner
June 20, 2007 | ISSUE 43•25
WASHINGTON, DC—In a nationally televised address reminiscent of President Kennedy's historic 1961 speech pledging to put a man on the moon, President Bush responded to the global warming crisis Monday by calling for the construction of a giant national air conditioner by the year 2015.
Concept art shows how the 800-mile-wide device would function on a "high cool" setting.
"Climate change is real and it demands a real solution," Bush said. "Therefore, I am committed to dedicating all of the technology, all of the brainpower, and all of the resources we need in order to keep America cool and comfortable well into the 21st century."
Cid_Yama wrote:With less than 10 years remaining before most of the planet reaches the point where peak heat stresses make it uninhabitable, what would the political priorities be?
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