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It's ok. I'm already terrified.
You should be terrified that reduced cloud-cover due to the removal of sulfer from marine fuels over the last few years has had dramatic impact, increasing global temperatures.
High-enough temperatures impede plant respiration, so no, reducing carbon output alone may not be enough to keep the planet livable in a term short-enough to prevent ourselves and so many other species from going extinct.
Reducing global temperatures directly may be the only way to stay alive long enough for the effects of reduced/net-zero carbon output to ever be seen by living human eyes.
It never well look at all the energy we are wasting in AI and crypto. We want to scorch the earth.
If identifying with the billionaires' desires is your cope, the rest of us are no obligation to respect that.