We should tax wealth apart from income...and put a backstop to prevent capital flight

[NoOneMan]

165. "climate change may be averted"

We've already doubled atmospheric carbon (and its not going away soon) and increased temperatures significantly, contributing to acidification which is dissolving shellfish. In addition, America is in the middle of a devastating drought that may last 100 years, which is already making grain production less than annual consumption and will eventually shift agricultural areas out of the USA within decades.

Meanwhile we are running out of time to even meet the arbitrary 2C target and slowly learning such an optimistic target vastly underestimated the effects of minor elevated rises in temperature.

No, it cannot be averted. Its already happening. We are already having species loss and human suffering linked to this, while accelerating emissions and kicking in positive feedbacks. We know it will get worse, as we haven't even begun feeling the cumulative effects of 30 gigatons of co2 emitted a year. How much worse is up to us, sure (but barely as its mostly out of our hands in terms of reduction), but increasing emissions each year while pretending we aren't headed for worldwide famine is exacerbating the issue.

This takes more than flowery, hopeful, wishful thinking at this point.