Lab. It's not a matter of what the planet is capable of supporting. It's a matter of what the Human race is capable of doing, and how try-hard we're willing to be to get there.
A little HFY here, but grounded in reality: the simple fact of the matter is that our existence as a race is completely and totally centered on making things that seem impossible very much possible. Yes, there are very real limits that reality will impose on us. The Libertarians that tried to turn a small town in New Hampshire into an Objectivist Utopia learned this the hard way. (Hint: it wasn't the local human residents.)
But when life presents us with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle? We find a way. It might mean changing how we think and how we look at things, but we will get around that obstacle, one way or another because we are tenacious like that.
That said... Things will be bad for a while. This is going to be the consequence we will all have to suffer through for our lack of action because there will be major population centers that will be under thirty feet of water, and so we'll be dealing with a refugee crisis in our own back yards. Just imagine it like if Hurricane Katrina happened to every coastal city in the USA all at once. But once Mother Nature has turned the heat up on us? Once the Climate Change Deniers no longer have a leg to stand on? Rest assured, we will start to work the problem as a whole in earnest. And even then, things are gonna suck for a while.
But they will get better.
Eventually.
A little HFY here, but grounded in reality: the simple fact of the matter is that our existence as a race is completely and totally centered on making things that seem impossible very much possible. Yes, there are very real limits that reality will impose on us. The Libertarians that tried to turn a small town in New Hampshire into an Objectivist Utopia learned this the hard way. (Hint: it wasn't the local human residents.)
But when life presents us with a seemingly insurmountable obstacle? We find a way. It might mean changing how we think and how we look at things, but we will get around that obstacle, one way or another because we are tenacious like that.
That said... Things will be bad for a while. This is going to be the consequence we will all have to suffer through for our lack of action because there will be major population centers that will be under thirty feet of water, and so we'll be dealing with a refugee crisis in our own back yards. Just imagine it like if Hurricane Katrina happened to every coastal city in the USA all at once. But once Mother Nature has turned the heat up on us? Once the Climate Change Deniers no longer have a leg to stand on? Rest assured, we will start to work the problem as a whole in earnest. And even then, things are gonna suck for a while.
But they will get better.
Eventually.