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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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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Not saying not worth a shot, but clearly this is how we end, with a time traveler trying to introduce the tech before it’s too late, but it turns out that it was the tech itself that greatly accelerated the final spiral, it was his fault.
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Launch the Elon Musk memorial sunshade to the L1 Lagrange point
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Maybe find out first if the problem is that bad. Could be that "rebuild uphill" and "think before you waste" is enough. Grand interventions are more at risk of unintended consequences. Less exciting as a replacement religion though.
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Geoengineering is definitely an option here - not the option I'd prefer, but an option all the same.
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but those things allow humans to keep existing and living comfortable lives, and the people who get upset about climate change think that humans probably shouldn't exist and certainly shouldn't be comfortable.
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