This is a very nice op-ed on climate that points out two obvious things on one else talks about: the heating will get worse no matter how much we cut emissions, and geoengineering (messing with the atmosphere to reflect sunlight) will become more appealinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/opinion/climate-change-geoengineering.html …
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You can mess with the atmosphere to achieve temporary cooling the old-fashioned way (try to blow up a stratovolcano) or in a number of new ways. But the key point is that unlike cutting emissions, it's not a collective action problem. One country can say "fuck it" and go it alone
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The author of this piece is an enthusiast. I'm Slavic and tend to think that massive geoengineering stunts are a way to discover even worse unintended consequences in real time. But the author and I can both agree that this option will grow to dominate the conversation on climate
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I’m onboard as long as we also build the snow piercer train
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Snowpiercer is infrastructure
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