Start killing oil executives? It won’t fix anything but at least they’ll suffer the consequences of their actions for once
It’s more that we’ve walked into a minefield, and we’re going to keep on losing ecoystems like this as we keep stepping forward. Makes it incredibly vital to stop burning fossil fuels as soon as we can.
No
It makes it incredibly vital that we get shareholders and the C suite more money.
Anything else is optional and not very important
What do we do now?
Two things:
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Make more money for share holders
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Nothing
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Die…
We’ll do three things:
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Ecoterrorism when?
let’s grab some ice from Halley’s comet and dump it in the ocean…/s
Thus solving the problem once and for all!
…ONCE AND FOR ALL!!!..shutup…
Well, it’s not good when the scientists are asking me for advice.
Ummm… Did y’all try painting them yet?
More like, “What else do we do, now?” They’ve already been working to propagate heat-tolerant corals, but the climate is changing faster than they can grow them, so many corals are likely going to die in the meantime.
Good thing we’ve since invented plant-based sponges, whew! Carry on!
Withdraw your support for the system, stop voting, become anarchists, cultivate local communities rather than global communities.
As an anarchist who would welcome other anarchists - sadly, I doubt if that’s a reliable recipe to stop climate change.
Limiting (hopefully stopping) climate change can be done under almost any political system… except perhaps dictatorial petro-states. However, it takes years of work to tranform the economy. Transport, heating, food production - many things must change. Perhaps the simplest individual choices are:
- going vegetarian (vegan if one knows enough to do the trick)
- avoidance of using fossil fueled personal vehicles
- improving home energy efficiency (especially in terms of heating)
- avoidance of air travel
- avoidance of heavy goods delivered from distant lands
The rest - creating infrastructure to produce energy cleanly and store sufficient quantities - are typically societal choices.
As for corals - I would start by preserving their biodiversity, sampling the genes of all coral and coral-related species and growing many of them in human-made habitats. If we’re about to cause their extinction, it’s our obligation to provide them life support until the environment has been fixed.
Also, I would consider genetically engineering corals to tolerate higher temperatures. Since I understand that this is their critical weakness, providing a solution could save ecosystems. If a solution is feasible, that is.
Corals reproduce sexually so a useful gene obtained from who knows where would spread among them (but slowly - because typical colonies grow bigger asexually). Also, I would keep in mind that this could have side effects.
As for tempeature - it will be rising for some time before things can be stopped. Short of geoengineering, nothing to be done but reduce emissions, adapt, and help others adapt. The predictable outcome - it will get worse for a long while before it starts getting any better.
