Global Warming
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My position on climate change has slightly evolved over the past few years, but I still don't think we can be flippant (/hubristic) enough to be un/sure of the science enough to NOT do anything about it.
*IF* we can pull smart nuclear out of the bag (focus on Thorium) AND we can deploy it in earnest worldwide, to every nation regardless of political leaning, and IF we can deliver a [really] huge amount of desalination plants, we can effectively engineer out our dry spots (Google 'dustbowlification') and at the same time capitalise on the extra land we'll gain nearer the poles.
We're amidst the greatest gamble any species on our planet has ever entered, and IF it pays off, we can spin global warming into a truly positive thing = more available landmass.
The flipside, however, if we continue to pretend that it cannot possibly be a concern, is that we don't evolve beyond a carbon-as-fuel economy, we don't 'geoengineer' the failpoints (deserts etc) whilst we do run out of easy energy, we do run out of food and migration and resource challenges bring down all the major economies... though if it goes that way, there are still plenty of nukes around, so maybe we'll just blow the shit out of each other instead.