The precarity trap concept is brillant - I hadn't thought about how cascading climate impacts could literaly erode our capacity for coordinated response. Your framing around 'stabilization doesn't let us off the hook, it preserves conditions under which we can stay on the hook' shifts the moral hazard debate in a way that finally makes sense. Working in climate finance, I've seen how economic anxiety kills political will for long-term action, so the risk-risk framing feels way more honest than pretending we only face one choice.
Paul, you continue to do some of the most thoughtful and important work around.
I very much look forward to each of your posts and after some reflection I will respond as you requested in some detail.
In the meantime since you mentioned seabed curtains and ecosystem restoration
here are two conversations I recently moderated on these important subjects.
The first is on the audacious effort to research the possibility of erecting a seabed curtain to slow the melting of the so-called Thwaites Doomsday Glacier.
One of our speakers Dr David Holland of NYU spoke directly from deck of the research vessel off the coast of Antarctica!
This next video is a conversation with the co-authors of “ Cooling the Climate, How to Revive the biosphere and cool the Earth within 20 years “ a book that makes the case that large scale ecosystem preservation and restoration could directly cool the climate particularly if focused in the Amazon.
The precarity trap concept is brillant - I hadn't thought about how cascading climate impacts could literaly erode our capacity for coordinated response. Your framing around 'stabilization doesn't let us off the hook, it preserves conditions under which we can stay on the hook' shifts the moral hazard debate in a way that finally makes sense. Working in climate finance, I've seen how economic anxiety kills political will for long-term action, so the risk-risk framing feels way more honest than pretending we only face one choice.
Paul, you continue to do some of the most thoughtful and important work around.
I very much look forward to each of your posts and after some reflection I will respond as you requested in some detail.
In the meantime since you mentioned seabed curtains and ecosystem restoration
here are two conversations I recently moderated on these important subjects.
The first is on the audacious effort to research the possibility of erecting a seabed curtain to slow the melting of the so-called Thwaites Doomsday Glacier.
One of our speakers Dr David Holland of NYU spoke directly from deck of the research vessel off the coast of Antarctica!
https://youtu.be/SasKEzVkk7A?si=YKx9BKT3qkVxbJXJ
This next video is a conversation with the co-authors of “ Cooling the Climate, How to Revive the biosphere and cool the Earth within 20 years “ a book that makes the case that large scale ecosystem preservation and restoration could directly cool the climate particularly if focused in the Amazon.
https://youtu.be/Co7eigqN2d8?si=IhfawpmIF9X5NLT5
great read