The sympathetic nervous system is the accelerator
of stress, it primes your body in preparation for any upcoming stressful event, no matter how small (like hurting your toe) or how big (like
jumping out of a
plane) and your parasympathetic nervous system is the brake and will help to normalize your body
after any stressful event.
In many regards, planning to overshoot our carbon budget before developing scaleable CDR solutions is like planning to
jump out of a
plane before learning how to work a parachute: it is possible to figure
out how to operate a parachute on the way down, but it is much more prudent to
jump only
after learning how to operate it.