You have well and truly missed the core point which the story of the Lorax is trying to make. This is quite an achievement, as both my children grasped it by age 3 or 4.

I don't dispute that being a possibility, but at the current rate its a lot more likelywe'll cause our extinction long before we get to that point.

Yeah, the thing about climate engineering is that a lot of it is science fiction, or may have unintended consequences. Cloud seeding for example, may make things worse, or drive wars, we just don't know. It's all a lot more complicated that saying "technology will fix it"... as technology usually makes things worse.... that's the point iv was making.

Maybe not, or maybe you're not conveying what you're talking about clearly enough.

"This sulphur thing"?? I don't recall reading that academic paper.

Some of the latest research suggests that we could be heading for 10C warming even if emissions stopped tomorrow. To get this under control we'd likely need to remove 1 trillion tonnes of carbon from atmosphere by 2050, 2040 if we want to be safe.

Why is that? The scale of the problem is well beyond what any technology we're likely to develop can fix. Our limited history clearly demonstrates that technology is positively correlated with degradation of the biosphere, and there's next to no evidence that this trend won't continue.

I'd be more concerned about what the limits of our planet are biosphere are than the limits of technology... technology matters little if it breaks the former, and we're pretty much at that point already.

The only distinguishing factor with an increase in consumer products is it will make the failure more spectacular.

You could potentially argue that the 2000s didn't really release any hype, but could equally argue that the 1970s did. Frankly, I think you're missing the point and VR has a long history of failure.... sorry if it hurts to accept that. https://virtualspeech.com/blog/history-of-vr

Second thoughts, I'll keep that short position open... making far too much money.

I guess everyone selling Meta's shares is wrong too. I'd better chose my short position. My bad. Lol.

Yep. Every decade, going back to 1980s. They didn't think it was a joke then, just as in 10 years they'll think we've got now is a joke... but it'll still fail to catch on then.

It fine saying that people want this technology, and the technology may be cool, but the last 30 years tells us that almost every endeavour in this field is a resounding failure.... Google Glass being a casing point, which is often conveniently overlooked.

For some people it is, for others it causes motion sickness... but forcing AR/VR into a new Snowcrasheske world... not gonna happen.

Every decade techno utupianists proudly declare that VR will change the world radically... and the FOMO crowd go chasing after it... but it never materialises. This time around it is no different.

Oh, that's easy.... there's only one answer to this... career advisers and job centre staff.