First you said to let you know if 2 degrees more can be avoided by a worldwide agreement to do the right thing.
Then you said if someone says the problem can be fixed by a clean energy strategy there is no reason to talk to them.
That kind of removes pretty much all options, if we were to believe it Mike.
The biggest problem I see right now, as someone working on the issue for six, nearly seven years, unpaid as yet, applying normally lucrative Systems Engineering skills to the problem, is doomerism.
This is a kind of mild terrorism, which builds on the mainstream terrorism, to extract yet more energy from the majority of people who can only get their energy from extracted sources. Hence it increases the pressure on energy extraction rather than decreasing it.
In other words doomers are compounding the problem of energy extraction.
It looks to me like most doomers if not all, enjoy certain loyal cult followings. They cultivate these followings in order to keep around them the folk they can most readily extract their energy from.
As you probably know, cults are unsustainable, they have to always end up with the cult leader quietly disappearing, leaving the entire cult following high and dry.
But until then the leader enjoys the privelige of being the leader of the cult.
In a way we can see even our governments are doing exactly the same. Whole countries are becoming cults.
Every media platform is a cult.
Even ChatGPT can be seen as a cult, if we were naive enough to think that the owners of it were actually in control of it.
What I see is more and more people losing the ability to understand what is real new information, over old established information.
There is no problem that can't be defeated by genuine new knowledge.
Losing sight of that, due maybe to giving in to the terrorism of dooming, is the biggest risk we face.
I guess it must be tempting to move towards doomerism, if we didn't have very solid knowledge of the system problem and how it must be fixed.
Denying that knowledge even exists, just because it is new, would be a crime with the biggest cost imaginable.