How do we survive if the Brazil election results go the way we think.
Flavio won the first round of elections in Brazil and it seems that none of the third parties have been willing to give their endorsement to either side (very cowardly)... I don't understand these people, these news, people, these pundits, all of them. Why doesn't anyone talk about the survival chances of the human species. They just leave you with X won the election. Hello? What now? You're just gonna let us go extinct???
Brazil is in control of the world's largest tropical rainforest and most of the potential geoengineering bandaids that we could use to keep it from falling apart involve being present on their territory. I can only think of one that wouldn't, that being marine cloud brightening over international waters near the Amazon. That means regardless of the government in the United States in 2029 most of the options for keeping that rainforest on life support are gone, because he will never consent to the necessary cloud seeding. Supposedly, this is going to end in 2031 but I don't know if that's the case, because there's no reason to believe he'll ever leave power. Maybe a determined enough United States government could make it happen. I don't know.
If Lula loses, which looks like is going to happen, it's the fault of those cowardly third-party candidates that were not willing to give endorsements when the survival of the human species was on the line. But I don't want to play blame games. I want to find a way to stop it. I want people to find another way. And that's the problem. Everybody's stumbling around in the dark and not willing to deal with the obvious existential risk.
I know one thing. I'm not staying here if what I do doesn't matter. My existence has costs and I'm not going to continue unless somebody has a plan to patch the hole. It doesn't have to be perfect, Flavio's administration can suck in a thousand ways and I'm fine. As long as the existential stuff is taken care of.