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    41 year ago

    i would agree with you if not for the very real possibility of total societal collapse due to climate change.

    future scientific discoveries, very complex in nature due to the incremental advances already made, need a long time of social stability to be achieved. lots of specialists that spent 20 years in school, lots of special resources, lots of functioning scientific grade equipment, lots of logistical support. if we are talking about complete control over the quantities of whatever gas there is on the atmosphere, then than makes it 1000 more difficult to achieve and implement.

    so, no. 200 years will not be enough time to achieve that kind of control over the atmosphere.

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      11 year ago

      So no… 200 years will be enough. Surely you know how much turmoil the world went through as humans were building up the infrastructure to accidentally alter the global climate. It was anything but stable, yet somehow here we are arguing about how long it’ll take to fix this. 200 years of targeted research in an unstable world will be more than sufficient. It’s happened before, it’ll happen again.

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        11 year ago

        so you think that a humanity going from climate disaster to climate disaster on a global scale, will have the resources to achieve total atmospheric control?

        and please explain to me how putting co2 in the atmosphere is as easy as taking it out? because i can burn down 20000000 trees in a day but you can’t grow 20000000 in a day.

        so no, 200 years for total atmospheric, considering the future that waits us, is simply delusional.

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          11 year ago

          It’s obviously not as easy. It’s a matter of low carbon energy production. Make enough energy and you can do whatever you want.