This blog post comes at the role of aerosols and raises the issue of whether sulphur ship emissions works out to be a good Faustian bargain.
https://benbyfax.substack.com/p/how-to-boil-the-mediterranean-sea
In hindsight, sulphur ship emissions were running a climate geoengineering program that had a huge effect we didn't fully realize.
The cooling effect from sulfur is much greater than the warming effect from CO2.
It is good for the climate that we have a emitted a lot of sulfur into the atmosphere, because it is masking a lot of warming. Without sulfur, we’d already be near 2°C.
Even though it's already accelerating, it's going to go even faster: The author points out that starting in May, much more emissions will start to be cut over the Mediterranean, which is 1/3 of all ship traffic on the planet.
I think a lot of the narratives that have spun up about what is going on (with the changes in the world order) smack of a kind of "taken-for-granted" reality / logic. There is an overall reaction that the way things were normal in the past is the way they are always supposed to be, and any and all change is now wrong just because it defies to maintain previous expectations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_constructionism
To me, collapse is THE most cogent explainer for what is going on now. There is an overall pattern of changes where the system seems to be seeking lower complexity and lower costs (money/energy). The facade that we will fix climate change or other global issues in the future..that is going away now.
At the same time, most people seem totally blindsided as they try to grapple with that glimpse into deeper reality...and they are seeing what is going on with a worldview where literal collapse seems to be something they can't (or won't) see. Its like a grieving process where people are in stages of denial and bargaining.
So, as an example, instead of being scared about climate, people are fretting about the stock market taking away some of their money. You can see how deeply they are clinging on to this bubble that is popping. That future never was. But what people badly want is to go back to sleep.