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The industrial revolution that fusion might be able to fuel would still need to solve climate change, because every increase in energy throughput also increases energy in the radiative budget. Geoengineering might become no-return necessity at this point.
Doesn't our current energy production add something like 5 orders of magnitude less than insolation? How many multiples of our current energy production before the effect is non-negligible?