Urge climate action from the government. I assume Mexico also uses a lot of water for agriculture for thirsty luxury crops like almonds and avocados like in California.
That’s a very familiar refrain. Government wants to tackle climate change. It announces a bunch of measures, with electric transportation, heat pumps, renewable energy. Population sees prices for transportation, housing and energy go up even faster and gets angry.
Government tries to use subsidies to lower costs. Taxes go up. Population gets angry again.
Population tries to shift taxes to the rich. Lobby groups spring up and campaign money dries up faster than a river during a heatwave.
Somebody else gets elected that is not climate friendly. More heatwaves happen. The cycle starts again.
Slowing things down would be putting the sulphur back in diesel and spraying it from jets in the upper atmosphere. Any reduction in pollution at this point will just accelerate warming as we lose the cooling effect from the particulates in the atmosphere.
Every GHG emission not done will slow down global warming. Pollution is detrimental to vegetation and thus detrimental to the only source of reliable carbon sinks we have.
Oh no it’s absolutely worse in the long term. We have the choice of being super-fucked or ultra-fucked. If we blast sulphur into the atmosphere we might get to enjoy one generation of having food and water (maybe).
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