The Climate Renegade(vox.com)
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The Climate Renegade
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/24/18273198/climate-change-russ-george-unilateral-geoengineering
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> I think the world would be better off with climate vigilantes doing what they can to fix the climate.
I don't think I agree on that point. A small group of people with good intentions can do a lot of damage. See, for instance, all the attempts to introduce X alien species to a new environment to help with problem Y, and it turns out X likes its home a little too much.
I absolutely agree with your first paragraph though, and the crux of your point.
I don't think I agree on that point. A small group of people with good intentions can do a lot of damage. See, for instance, all the attempts to introduce X alien species to a new environment to help with problem Y, and it turns out X likes its home a little too much.
I absolutely agree with your first paragraph though, and the crux of your point.
How is this any different from artificially putting nitrates into soil for crop fertilization?
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The problem is the idea of one person geoengineering the climate. But we've been doing that unintentionally for decades already at an enormous scale. What would the response have been if a dump with the same material had happened, by accident, with no intentions of any climate impact? I think the world would be better off with climate vigilantes doing what they can to fix the climate than everyone passively waiting for world governments to act and behaving in incredibly confined nearly useless ways (like putting your plastic bottles in the recycling container).
[1] https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions
[2] https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000012...