Jason Vath wrote:This has been bugging me for years,
My fears are that overtime, (at least at this rate) all life might become severely compromised.
Well, kinda the last grasp response: making the planet inhabitable for the human species does not necessarily imply the extinction of ALL life on Earth. This means another species, if all fails, will get a chance to take our place, and maybe they will learn our mistakes through archaeology and paleontology and fare better than we are/will.
At the moment, history is still in the making, as it always will be. Trite and true: history is the infinite summation of events, and consequently, the present is always making the past, and heading for the future.
So, the best advice I can really give about this topic is probably for people to go out and do something about it instead of waiting for other people to solve their problems. I am not trying to be mean; I am being pragmatic. It is more efficient, in my opinion, for people solve problems (e.g. poverty, climate change, protection) from the
local level and unite from there instead of doing a top-down approach. Also, if people want to control their futures, well, they have to actively participate in making that future.
So, if people are afraid of geoengineering, the best solution is to start solving the problems that got us all into this climate change mess at the
roots.