Our response to covid has a lot of bad implications for the fight against climate change, a far tougher collective action problem. Among the worst is the exposure of "trust the science" as a kind of secular faith, not a genuine defense of scientific thinking. This took many forms
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Space mirror, ocean seeding, reforestation, mass electrification, setting off a volcano or two—we should go to town. Humanity can at least go out with a bang, and we have a much better shot at solutions that involve building things than ones that require restraining ourselves
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Probably a good idea to leave a note on the Moon explaining what we tried, unless we're have some plan to use that as planetary sunscreen
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I 100% believe that I'm going to see this in my lifetime:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/14/world/europe/north-sea-dams.html …
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Arresting climate change to the degree advocates say is necessary has seemed obviously doomed for years and I find it bizarre how people continue to treat it like a real possibility. Humanity will just have to adjust to the new reality.
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If only our glorious blockchain future could have been powered by proof-of-co2-capture or proof-of-solar-albedo rather than proof-of-waste-heat.
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lol. Someone needs to take their own advice immediately.
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This sort of thing is in and of itself a press driven not scientifically supported idea, at least in our lifetimes (If we never get emissions under control, which seems likely, future centuries may be in for all that).
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