Climate change is a thing, after it was first conceived that the planet was heating up due to increased carbon emissions, and the skeptics were put in their place, the world seems to be in agreement that radical changes need to happen in order to halt and reverse the problem.
Having the whole planet agree and work together to solve a problem is an excellent start to future endeavors that involve working together instead of fighting and warring against one another. But while the world is working towards a common goal, I'm wondering if we aren't overlooking another possible outcome for everyone's futures.
Look past cooling the planet, and imagine that we have finally come to that day when we are celebrating the fact that the earthlings have stopped global warming and the planet is cooling off. We have skyscrapers that scrub carbon from the air as it passes by, cars that are fully autonomous using only electricity, lab grown meat that doesn't put methane and carbon gasses back into the atmosphere from livestock feces. We have a complete solar and wind generation system in place that goes above and beyond any and all energy needs that the population demands and the earth continues to cool.
How do we stop the cooling? Are we going to enter into an new type of climate change where we have global cooling due to the future engines put in place to cool the planet, a second ice age? How would we stop it?
Reintroduce coal, oil, and gas factories? Bring back gas powered engines? Essentially regress back to a system that was the cause in the first place? As a species we need to continually move forward in order to progress into a future society and going backwards is never an option. I hope the scientists of the world realize this could be an outcome from all of our cooling efforts and they have a plan for total equalization of our atmosphere, a balance of the perfect temperature.
Scott Goerz
