You're the proverbial boiling frog
If not worse.
But you're really just remaking the point that as a species we're incapable of intelligent collective management of our resources.
> 5-6 billion people are going to have their living standards and reproductive opportunities destroyed anyway.
The problem might be that those sets of people are not the same.
In this sense, continued emissions only accelerate and compound the current process unfolding. Global warming as it exists today cannot be stopped passively.
That was the previous poster's point. We can infer that their unstated objective is the end of global warming in the near future (i.e. in the next few centuries), the achievement of which necessarily requires active intervention.
I might infer that your unstated objective is not the end of global warming, but the end of ongoing human interference per se. That's an entirely different objective, albeit no less legitimate.
If I'm correct (and I'm confident in my assessment wrt to the previous poster), then you two are talking past each other.