"Heat: the next big inequality issue"

[NickB79]

7. We need surplus solar and wind capacity for carbon capture

And that's after we retire all the coal and gas plants, AND convert most of the global automobile fleet to electric. Anything less and civilization is pretty much toast. We're so far into the danger zone already that even all that may not be enough to save a large chunk of the planet from destruction.

It will be many decades before we could realistically spare renewable capacity to expand AC systems.