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>>5170964

>cornucopian bullshit

Let's dissect this post, shall we?

> is easily managed by a wide variety of feasible options.

If it was easy it would have been done already. I'm sure you already know that breaking away from a fossil fuel-centric infrastructure is a difficult and time-consuming process. Geoengineering has been proposed, but to date there are no large-scale experiments to demonstrate feasibility and safety. Adaptation to protect crops and coastal cities will cost, at the very least, hundreds of trillions over the next century.

>The benefits of increased atmospheric CO2 are large

According to the Stern Review, the total economic impact of unmitigated climate change could exceed 20% by the end of the century, and this GDP impact would continue indefinitely into the future. This would be roughly equivalent to a neverending Great Depression.