[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

The actual answer is we will have to live with it

we cant "solve it"

No the actual answer is we won't solve it and the planet will most likely be uninhabitable in 200 years time (big chunks of it within the next 50) .

Call me a pessimist. And again that's not an activist-y "WE HAFTA DO SOMETHING", it's an acceptance that 7+ billion humans crawling about the planet is about 100 times too many for it to realistically support. We broke it, it's done. We're actually quite privileged in a way, to be here witnessing the quite clear self-destruction and final days of the only known sapient species in existence. Again that's not a plea to fix it. The deal is signed and sealed lol.

To be fair as I always say I do hold onto a SLIGHT hope but it's not a hope that people in general will fix it. I think there's a small hope that these will be technological solutions to reverse the damage that's been done and control climate directly - or perhaps to live successfully full-time in biodomes either on or off Earth (The Moon, Mars) and humanity will live on in that way (a few million maybe) until the first solution is possible. I can see that quite feasibly happening. The theory behind terraforming is quite solid, I guess they just imagined it'd be Mars we'd be terraforming, not Earth itself .