We used to be one large landmass. Piece the continents back together. Show me where S Dakota was ever exposed to the oceans. Or Kentucky. Or New Mexico. Or the Sahara Desert.
So we can hopefully agree we split apart at some point a few hundred million years ago.. This doesn't explain why the earth has cycled hot and cold multiple times since then.
And if I'm not mistaken the acceleration of warming has taken place in the last 100 years. Not the last 10,000 years. But the evidence does suggest we have been warming. Just like we know we had an ice age in relative recent earth history prior to that. You can do your own data reviews.
Now moving along to awareness of what causes it. Burning of fossil fuels could stop tomorrow. Outlaw all of it. (Hypothetically speaking).
Now we would lose our carbon based energy used to make heat, create about 60% of the electricity in the U.S. and about 85 % of the worldwide electricity. It also moves our goods, purifies our water, and makes up a large portion of our durable petroleum based products.
So those will all go away. And we've already depleted most of our forest. So falling back on wood isn't sustainable to survive off of.
And would it stop the heating cycle? Possibly. The evidence suggest it's had cycles of heating and cooling. We just weren't around to debate if we could control it or not.
So if tomorrow ( hypothetically) it all went away, we'd immediately be in the stone age. We'd cease to exist as humans before the temp came down enough to make it worth the efforts.
I'd rather agree to slow it down for 100 years and hope we can buy enough time to let technology catch up. Mankind has been pretty good at both causing it's problems and solving problems. We did not create global warming. This is a new problem that isn't as simple as stop burning fossil fuels. We have to solve mother nature. If we can't, our time here on earth was never up to us anyway.
We are making great strides in undoing plastics, reforesting lands, managing wildlife and resources. I'm in full support of bringing back nuclear powered power plants. It's the quickest, easiest and most understood way to make massive amounts of energy compared to anything else we know. Advancing electric vehicles. It takes time to advance those technologies. And yes it needs help by our government. Don't eff with people like Elon. He is a Thomas Edison of this century. The fact that he has become super wealthy from it, is totally worth it to us a society and a planet. He's certainly better at it than our government is.