re: #62 Cato the Elder

And for the record, nothing short of an economically viable alternative or the Second Coming is going to stop us (viz. humanity in the aggregate) from putting more carbon up there. It’s a simple matter of cost vs. demographics.

Off course, you could decide to infect all the upwardly-mobile brown people with AIDS or multiresistant TB to put the brakes, as it were, on their enthusiasm for central heating and internal combustion engines. But that would be immoral.

Or you could actually build and deploy alternative energy sources which are already available and viable. That way they don’t suffer (now and in the future) and we don’t suffer (in the future).

The pay now or pay a very lot later part of the argument seems to be missing from your analysis.