Rhaedas

I think it was still too late to avoid the worst of it, but with him as President in 2000 some things would have changed by now for the better, and some things would have been prevented. Or maybe not, alternative history is hard to predict, and maybe GWB was the better choice for the US and the world after all.

Yeah, I find it hard to believe too.

Have to wonder why he stayed with the party when so much has changed since then.

There are methods to solid capture, similar to what happens over millennia naturally. It takes a lot of energy and more importantly, water flow, and like everything else can't possibly scale up to get enough of a percentage in the air and oceans to make a difference. It also probably has its own waste, as it's a complex chemical process and not just one simple reaction.

It depends on your personality and life. If you have kids or others to care for, or a social life, or anything else tied to the day-night cycle, then yeah, it sucks. No traffic on the road is huge, I don't see how people deal with even just moving rush hour day after day. cue opening scene of Office Space Nope, I'm good with this.

The 1%. But the .1% of that 1% is who is controlling everything.

I know we will do what we can to keep status quo, but opening that geoengineering box is going to lead to long term failure.

What about cutting subsidies? Make the price of fuel more realistic to force reductions. The money saved can go to the same places, but we also slow emissions. It will definitely be terrible for most people, but real solutions have to be hard.

If the bottom line is bigger than last quarter, yes. It's getting companies to try things that they see as riskier that's hard, when cutting costs is always easier and gets some results faster than any progressive ideas.

Shorten the work week, give better pay per hour for when you're there, allow remote working wherever it makes sense, lots of other things to make an employee feel better about their work and also give them the opportunity to live life outside the job. Amazingly it's been found that companies that do things like that not only have better production results, they retain people longer. I know, who would have guessed?

We'd also need to see more progressive seats in both House and Senate, since legislation to spark any improvement direction would have to go through them.

Agreed. The problem is so deeply embedded in our society that any change that doesn't have some profit isn't going to gain traction. A real plan for climate adaptation would piss off both corporate and public and she'd be out asap for the next person who promises to keep things status quo.

The good news is that hospitalization rates haven't gone up much. I find it funny that following a link to figure that out got me to the CDC main page where the first warning wasn't about Covid, but about the West Nile virus cases rising.