Is It Too Late to Stop Climate Change? [video]

No.

Correct.

Don't listen to the doomsayers that just talk and don't propose any practical solutions.

At least there are those who are developing the tools, technologies and policies that will slow it down or make a significant impact in stopping it.

Consensus on a carbon tax that is consistent with the marginal cost of abatement and staying below 2C is $50 or so per tonne by the late 2020s and up to $180 by 2050 to get all the way to net zero. The idea is that you set a tax that goes up predictably so that you incentivise capital decisions leading to emissions reductions over the life of the capital asset.

That might seem like a lot but based on US average consumption based emissions (production based emissions taxation is for chumps) that's $850 annually by the late 2020s. Of course, all or most of that can be returned to people through other tax reductions. I can't be the only one who looks at that number and thinks, "Is that fucking it? Jesus, just do it then."

Well, I can be carbon negative pretty easily. So just make everyone pony up for their carbon.

> what is the meaning of "too late"?

I take it to mean for the human race to continue its existence in roughly the same way we've become accustomed over the past century or so (though the time frame will vary according to people, I suppose.

>maybe some amebas will evolve into something more peaceful that the savages we have become.

that could well be the case or we might be in this situation in a few billion years