Decades of optimism along the lines of "something bad is coming, but we can still fix it" did way too little.
Perhaps now that it's actually bad something might happen.
At this point, geo engineering is probably the safer option compared to letting the planet spiral into an uninhabitable waste land. Of course, it should be combined with cheap and abundant renewable/nuclear energy.
Now that things are bad, there might actually be popular support for this, though we may still have to wait for the current political class to retire.
Perhaps now that it's actually bad something might happen.
At this point, geo engineering is probably the safer option compared to letting the planet spiral into an uninhabitable waste land. Of course, it should be combined with cheap and abundant renewable/nuclear energy.
Now that things are bad, there might actually be popular support for this, though we may still have to wait for the current political class to retire.