Still doesn’t solve the problem of pollution, deforestation, animal extinction, etc, that come with our excessive levels of consumption and expansion.
Geoengineering may be a better way to manage global warming than politicizing it into a symbolic moral apocalypse, as if the cosmos was rendering judgment against the last few centuries of our amazing economic & technological growth.https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1068410831140982785 …
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You really need to read 'Enlightenment Now' bro
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I’m not at all disagreeing btw, I’m all for proper geoengineering, but it is hardly going to be a complete alternative to confronting how we consume and economically grow.
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FWIW, I've also been very critical of runaway consumerism in my book 'Spent'.
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I would note also that geoengineering isn’t an all-or-nothing deal. It could be used as a supplemental strategy alongside emissions reduction.
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Problems should be solved. This specific approach may net be the right one.
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Except for simple problems there are no solutions, only trade offs.
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It might be. Moralizing on its own has almost no effect on anything. But geoengineering involves huge choices and really complex execution which as we know can lead to huge mistakes and mammoth cock-ups. We need the smartest people in the world all telling the truth about it.
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It's not a climate change that is morally apocalyptic, its denying it or doing nothing.
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They don't see anything symbolic about it, though; they *literally* believe it's the Apocalypse.
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